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c o n t e n t s o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 4 1 4 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants David Gelber • Tom Williams Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 2 f r om the p u l p i t 1 Tom Holland l i t e r a r y l i v e s 5 John Sutherland Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 2 (edd) Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith 6 John Gray George Orwell: English Rebel Robert Colls 8 Matthew Sperling A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting Richard Burton 10 Blair Worden Sir Thomas Browne: A Life Reid Barbour 12 Duncan Wu William and Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘All in Each Other’ Lucy Newlyn h i st or y 13 David Cesarani Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Wendy Lower 15 Mary Kenny Fatal Path: British Government & Irish Revolution 1910– 1922 Ronan Fanning • The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918–1923 Charles Townshend 16 Alan Allport Year Zero: A History of 1945 Ian Buruma 18 Sarah Bradford High Minds: The Victorians & the Birth of Modern Britain Simon Heffer f or e i g n pa rts 19 Donald Rayfield Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History Catherine Merridale 21 Alex von Tunzelmann Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 22 Lucy Moore One Summer: America 1927 Bill Bryson 23 Lawrence Rosen Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East Elizabeth F Thompson
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c o n t e n t s o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 4 1 4

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants David Gelber • Tom Williams Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell

The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife.

Literary Review | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 2

f r om the p u l p i t 1 Tom Holland l i t e r a r y l i v e s 5 John Sutherland

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 2 (edd) Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith 6 John Gray

George Orwell: English Rebel Robert Colls 8 Matthew Sperling

A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting Richard Burton 10 Blair Worden

Sir Thomas Browne: A Life Reid Barbour 12 Duncan Wu

William and Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘All in Each Other’ Lucy Newlyn h i st or y 13 David Cesarani

Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Wendy Lower 15 Mary Kenny

Fatal Path: British Government & Irish Revolution 1910– 1922 Ronan Fanning • The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918–1923 Charles Townshend 16 Alan Allport

Year Zero: A History of 1945 Ian Buruma 18 Sarah Bradford

High Minds: The Victorians & the Birth of Modern Britain Simon Heffer f or e i g n pa rts 19 Donald Rayfield

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History Catherine Merridale 21 Alex von Tunzelmann

Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 22 Lucy Moore

One Summer: America 1927 Bill Bryson 23 Lawrence Rosen

Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East Elizabeth F Thompson

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