Reviews

From the archives:

Bismarck: A Life
by Jonathan Steinberg
Review by Peter Millar
For most modern Britons the name Bismarck is less evocative of the man than of the battleship which Adolf Hitler refused to name Deutschland in case it should ever be sunk..
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No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone
 
 
by Tom Bower
Review by Frank Barnard
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Brian Sewell
 Illustration by Robert Geary
 

Books

John McEwen on Outsider Always Almost: Never Quite by BRIAN SEWELL

Jeremy Lewis on The Wartime Journals by HUGH TREVOR-ROPER

John Bowen reviews IAN RANKIN'S  The Impossible Dead and The Prague Cemetery by UMBERTO ECO

Nigel Fountain reviews NORMAN DAVIES's Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

John Sweeney finds the regime of Vladimir Putin makes sober reading in DAVID SATTER's It was a long time ago, and It Never Happened Anyway &  LUKE HARDING'S Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

Melanie McDonagh has a look at The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the African Slave Trade by ALISTAIR HAZELL

PLUS: Audiobooks, reviewed by Rachel Redford
Absent in the Spring (Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott)
The History of Western Art (Peter Whitfield)
Kings and Queens (Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon)


Reviews
 
MUSIC
Richard Osborne on the end of EMI

SPORT
Frank Keating notes the 75th anniversary of British television sport

COOKERY
Elisabeth Luard on Perrol de monte - a mouthwatering game stew

SHOPPING
Alice Pitman on supermarkets

TELEVISION
Richard Ingrams notes, from his televised debate with Jon Snow,
how amazingly youthful Jimmy Carter remains

WIRELESS
Valerie Grove does a radio round-up of 2011

FILM
Marcus Berkmann - Hugo and My Week with Marilyn

THEATRE
Paul Bailey on the modest genius that is Michael Grandage, director of Richard II
at the Donmar Warehouse

OLDIE MASTERS
Philip Athill applauds the draughtsmanship of Moses Griffiths (1747-1819)

GARDENING
David Wheeler says three cheers for the Hellebore

MEMORIAL SERVICE
FRANCIS KING

EXPAT
Fiona Pitt-Kethley writes from Cartagena in Spain

EXHIBITION
Nick Newman deplores the queue for the Leonardo exhibition - but applauds the show



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