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contents july 2015 • issue 433 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistant David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Assistant Katherine Bogden Bayard 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, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 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: subscriptions@warnersgroup.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 | july 2015 2 pulpit 1 Paul Lay history 5 John Keay Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War Raghu Karnad • The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War Yasmin Khan 7 Jonathan Mirsky Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 & the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History Saul David 8 Philip Hoare The Captain and ‘the Cannibal’: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, & the Broadway Stage James Fairhead 10 David Cesarani KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Nikolaus Wachsmann 12 Gillian Tindall Dreamstreets: A Journey through Britain’s Village Utopias Jacqueline Yallop biography 13 Donald Rayfield Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary & Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Rosemary Sullivan 15 Patrick Wilcken Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W H Hudson – Naturalist & Writer from the River Plate Jason Wilson 16 Jane Ridley First Lady: The Life & Wars of Clementine Churchill Sonia Purnell 17 Dominic Sandbrook Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case HistoriesThomas Grant 18 Dominic Green The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West Michelle Goldberg vive la france 20 Jonathan Beckman How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People Sudhir Hazareesingh 21 Allan Massie The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day Jonathan Fenby
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contents 22 Alan Forrest Bonaparte: 1769–1802 Patrice Gueniffey 24 Rory Muir Napoleon on War Bruno Colson literary spirit 25 Jonathan Keates Touché: The Duel in Literature John Leigh 26 Tim Stanley Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties Kevin M Schultz 27 Frederic Raphael Curiosity Alberto Manguel 29 John Sutherland The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness & the American Sublime Harold Bloom diaries & memoirs 31 Anna Reid The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl’s Life in the Siege of Leningrad (edd) Valentin Kovalchuk, Aleksandr Rupasov & Aleksandr Chistikov 32 David Bodanis On the Move: A Life Oliver Sacks 33 Samantha Ellis The Lights of Pointe-Noire Alain Mabanckou • The Utopia Experiment Dylan Evans • The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness Sy Montgomery general 35 John Gray The Happiness Industry: How the Government & Big Business Sold Us Well-Being William Davies 36 Matthew Green Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars Chris Woods 38 Elif Shafak Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution Mona Eltahawy 39 Andrew Crumey Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, & Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved Marcia Bartusiak 41 Henry Gee The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? Nick Lane 42 Jonathan Meades Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings Owen Hatherley 44 Isabella Tree The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha’s Daughters Christine Toomey 45 Andy Martin Thrown Kerry Howley 46 Alan Judd The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror Stephen Grey 48 Cosmo Landesman Modern Romance: An Investigation Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg fiction 50 Jacob Silverman Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai 51 James Purdon Book of Numbers Joshua Cohen 52 Yasmine Seale The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi 53 Frank Brinkley on four collections of short stories 54 Oscar Rickett You Don’t Have to Live Like This Benjamin Markovits 55 Lindy Burleigh The Disappeared Roger Scruton 55 Miranda France Something to Hide Deborah Moggach 56 Kaite Welsh Invisible Threads Lucy Beresford 57 Laura Gallagher Signs for Lost Children Sarah Moss 57 Luke Maxted A General Theory of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa 58 Jonathan Barnes Dr Who: The Drosten’s Curse A L Kennedy The Whispering Swarm Michael Moorcock children’s books 59 Philip Womack on twelve new books 49 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 34 Crossword 46 Literary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill Jessica Mann in on holiday this month. Her crime reviews return in August. july 2015 | Literary Review 3

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contents july 2015 • issue 433

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistant David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Assistant Katherine Bogden Bayard 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, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 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: subscriptions@warnersgroup.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 | july 2015 2

pulpit 1 Paul Lay history 5 John Keay

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War Raghu Karnad • The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War Yasmin Khan 7 Jonathan Mirsky

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 & the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History Saul David 8 Philip Hoare

The Captain and ‘the Cannibal’: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, & the Broadway Stage James Fairhead 10 David Cesarani

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Nikolaus Wachsmann 12 Gillian Tindall

Dreamstreets: A Journey through Britain’s Village Utopias Jacqueline Yallop biography 13 Donald Rayfield

Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary & Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Rosemary Sullivan 15 Patrick Wilcken

Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W H Hudson – Naturalist & Writer from the River Plate Jason Wilson 16 Jane Ridley

First Lady: The Life & Wars of Clementine Churchill Sonia Purnell 17 Dominic Sandbrook

Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case HistoriesThomas Grant 18 Dominic Green

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West Michelle Goldberg vive la france 20 Jonathan Beckman

How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People Sudhir Hazareesingh 21 Allan Massie

The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day Jonathan Fenby

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