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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.

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Review: Shereen El Feki, Sex and the Citadel

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This is a book of many surprises. Not the least the fact that someone exists to write it. Towards the end of the book, El Feki defines ...
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Saturday, 15 February 2014

Essay: Holocaust Education

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Fifty years ago, around the time of my 17th birthday, I travelled to Sweden for a long summer holiday job in the Hotel Siljansborg, Rät...
Monday, 3 February 2014

Review: Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life

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Stephen Grosz begins this book by telling us that for twenty five years he has worked as a psychoanalyst, spending more than 50,000 hour...
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...
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