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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Friday, 17 January 2014

Review: Waitman Wade Beorn, Marching Into Darkness

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This academic study of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus is an exemplary work. It is clear, concise and meticulous in its pre...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Review: Douglas Thompson, Stephen Ward Scapegoat

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Stephen Ward was born in 1912 and died in 1963. Except for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, nearly all his friends and acquaintances w...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Review: Charles Cumming, A Foreign Country - or Their Spooks and Ours

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I will occasionally read a Spy thriller and usually enjoy it, as I enjoyed this one by Charles Cumming. But I do find them a bit - ...
Monday, 6 January 2014

Review: Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal

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This was Eleanor Catton's first novel - her Man Booker Prize-winning  The Luminaries  is her second. (I haven't read it). It...
Saturday, 28 December 2013

Review: Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her

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This is the kind of book I like to read: under 200 pages of text and double spaced 26 lines to the page - maybe 50 000 words. You have ...
Thursday, 26 December 2013

Review: Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up!

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Almost, but not quite. It's easy to read even at 500 pages and even though narrative drive has to be sustained across forward and b...
Sunday, 24 November 2013

Review: Perry Anderson, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

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Though published as an issue of New Left Review, this 162 page essay is in effect a book and the book is in effect an extended - the wo...
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