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c o n t e n t s n o v ember 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 4 1 5 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 | n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 3 2 f r om the p u l p i t 1 Piers Brendon b i o g r a p hy 5 Eric Ormsby The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad Lesley Hazleton 7 Robert Gildea Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity Philip Short 8 Linda Porter Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen Alison Weir 10 Stephen Bates Excellent Dr Stanley: The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster John Witheridge 11 John Sweeney Che Wants to See You Ciro Bustos 12 Jane Ridley Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves David Crane 13 Andrew Lycett Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim Russell Miller f or e i g n pa rts 14 David Gilmour 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh Srinath Raghavan 15 Miranda Seymour The Danube Nick Thorpe 17 Kevin Jackson American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light Iain Sinclair h i st or y 18 Richard Overy Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising Alexandra Richie 19 Philip Parker The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria Max Adams 20 Frances Wilson The Profligate Son Nicola Phillips 21 Giles Milton Merchant Adventurers James Evans 22 Nigel Jones on fourteen books on the First World War memoirs 25 Donald Rayfield Spy in the Archives Sheila Fitzpatrick
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c o n t e n t s n o v ember 2 0 1 3 • i s s u e 4 1 5

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 | n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 3 2

f r om the p u l p i t 1 Piers Brendon b i o g r a p hy 5 Eric Ormsby

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad Lesley Hazleton 7 Robert Gildea

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity Philip Short 8 Linda Porter

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen Alison Weir 10 Stephen Bates

Excellent Dr Stanley: The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster John Witheridge 11 John Sweeney

Che Wants to See You Ciro Bustos 12 Jane Ridley

Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves David Crane 13 Andrew Lycett

Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim Russell Miller f or e i g n pa rts 14 David Gilmour

1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh Srinath Raghavan 15 Miranda Seymour

The Danube Nick Thorpe 17 Kevin Jackson

American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light Iain Sinclair h i st or y 18 Richard Overy

Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising Alexandra Richie 19 Philip Parker

The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria Max Adams 20 Frances Wilson

The Profligate Son Nicola Phillips 21 Giles Milton

Merchant Adventurers James Evans 22 Nigel Jones on fourteen books on the First World War memoirs 25 Donald Rayfield

Spy in the Archives Sheila Fitzpatrick

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