Search

I insist that because the Huguenots left France, just as 11 million displaced East Europeans left with UNRRA's help after 1945, there was an end to conflict, as opposed to [...]

David McDowall (Letters, January 19) amplified my contention that UNRWA entrapped Palestinian refugees by recalling the two failed resettlement schemes that were proposed, one in Jordan with Yarmuk waters, another [...]

ON WARS MICHAEL MANN 616pp. Yale University Press. 30 [pounds sterling] (US $40). Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War to teach how to win in war by understanding what war [...]

I cannot believe that David Abulafia meant what he wrote about commercial documentation 'from the extraordinary rubbish dump of the Cairo Genizah' (reviewing The Donkey and the Boat by Chris [...]

In Jonathan Egid's good review (January 27) of Laura Beatty's good book on Theophrastus, he of the Characters (but Beatty's point is that there is much more to him), I [...]

Robert Pounder (Letters, December 2) challenges my description of Michael Wolff's review of Jared Kushner's memoirs (September 9) as a 'grotesque misrepresentation of the book and the person'. He writes [...]

Brian Moloney (Letters, July 8) explains that Carlo Levi's Cristo si e fermato a Eboli is not a memoir because he wanted to focus attention on the poor peasants of [...]

Tom Sperlinger praises Nur Masalha's book Palestine across Millennia (In Brief, June 10), whose wholly anachronistic premiss is that everything that occurred within the borders of British Mandatory Palestine down [...]

AN ARMY LIKE NO OTHER How the Israel Defence Forces made a nation HAIM BRESHEETH-ZABNER 448pp. Verso. 20 £. ON PAGE 3 OF THIS BOOK the author is a second [...]

This commentary reviews the origins and context in which the author's conception of 'geoeconomics' emerged. As such, it responds to Mallin and Sidaway's (2023) genealogical reconstruction of geoeconomics, rejecting their association of the concept with the ultra‐nationalistic iterations of Geoökonomie in Weimar Germany. The author reflects on the reception of his notion of geoeconomics, highlighting the contrasting fortunes of the associated ideas in France and the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Having read halfway down a judicious review by David French of a judicious book on the British Army's recent evolution by Simon Akam (June 11), I was startled to find [...]

Michael Holzman (Letters, January 15) questions Ernest Bevin's reputation as Foreign Secretary because he was insufficiently anti-colonial. Holzman misses the point. It was not his stance on Empire that cemented [...]

WAR How conflict shaped us MARGARET MACMILLAN 320pp. Profile. 20 [pounds sterling]. Margaret Macmillan has been a persistent defender of war studies and military history, now exorcized from most Anglo-American [...]

Hugo Drochon (November 6) is admirably succinct in dissecting the debate on the politics of Nietzsche, only really needed because of his unspeakable sister's meretricious misrepresentation, but he might have [...]

Haim Bresheeth-Zabner (Letters, September 25) denies that he used the phrase 'Das Volk in Waffen' to describe Ben-Gurion's founding concept of the Israeli Army in order to blacken its name [...]

Johanna Hanink's review of Postclassicisms (July 24) efficiently itemizes the contents of this book, eg Posthumanism and (New) Materialism, of which I know little and care less, but she then [...]

Robert Ellis writes (Letters, 31): 'J.C.'s unreflective attacks on any cultural attitude that happens to be different from his own seem to be becoming increasingly crass ...'. Not unreflective but [...]

YESTERDAY'S MAN The case against Joe Biden BRANKO MARCETIC 288pp. Verso. Paperback, 12.99 [pounds sterling]. I am not sure whether Branko Marcetic is an assiduous Bible reader but he ought [...]

From Yitzhak Laor's review of Tom Segev's (very critical) Life of David Ben-Gurion (January 10) I learnt that David Ben-Gurion was an ignorant fraud intellectually and a fraudster with money [...]

JERUSALEM AND WASHINGTON A life in politics and diplomacy ZALMAN SHOVAL Translated by Anthony Berris 384pp. Rowman and Littlefield. $38. ZALMAN SHOVAL HAS SET OUT to tell the story of [...]