Publication date: 1992-07-01
Dewey code: 623.45119
RRP: £23.95
Price: £20.32
Review The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb / University of California Press:
Publication date: 1994-07
Dewey code: 973.922092
RRP: £16.95
Price: £13.95
Review Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait of Her Private Years / Citadel Press:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1987-01-01
Dewey code: 940.547243094386
RRP: £17.50
Price: £11.55
Review Guns and Barbed Wire: Child Survives the Holocaust / Academy Chicago Publications:
Publication date: 2001-09-27
Price: £25.00
Review The Full Monty: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942 Vol 1 (The full Monty) / Allen Lane:There may be worse titles for a biography of Lord Montgomery of Alamein than The Full Monty, but none readily come to mind. At best it suggests a few laughs that most certainly aren't to be found, and at worst a staggering insensitivity when the book's central thesis is Montgomery's confused and complex sexuality. Nigel Hamilton has already written an acclaimed three-volume biography of Monty, published in the 1980s, which reclaimed the honour and reputation of the British soldier that had been savaged by earlier generations of American historians, and now asks his readers to wade through 800 pages of what is only the first of two planned volumes of his reassessment. Inevitably, a great deal of the material is much the same-Hamilton is a scrupulous archivist-and the only critical difference is that this time round Monty's homosexuality takes central stage. Monty's sexuality wasn't exactly a secret among World War II historians when Hamilton began his research in the early 1980s, and he makes some special pleading for his reasons for having omitted it first time round. He was too young a biographer to enter "these dark waters", his father would have been aghast; homosexuality in the military wasn't tolerated in the 1980s: all these facts conspired the young Hamilton to largely conceal an important part of his subject's personality. There have been several biographies of Monty that have been published after Hamilton's magnum opus, all of which have openly dealt with his sexuality, so why, apart from an understandable desire-as Monty's official biographer-to put the record straight, would Hamilton want to rake over an old story? The answer appears to be that Hamilton is such a Montyphile that, having come to terms with his hero being outed, he wants to annexe his sexuality to his own ends. So rather than seeing Monty's homosexuality as just another facet of his personality, Hamilton seeks to make a virtue of it by claiming it was this that made him such a brilliant and charismatic general. Hamilton suggests that being gay was what made Monty so empathetic with his troops, which in turn inspired their loyalty; this is both specious and deluded sexual stereotyping. Is it not possible that Monty's success owes more to an astute military mind? Inevitably, perhaps Hamilton's fondness for his subject also blinds him to some unpalatable truths. [+]Monty's attraction for young boys is explained away as an "affectionate and platonic" bond motivated by the highest sensibilities. This, at the very least, is a highly suspect argument. Whether there was physical intimacy or not-and the jury is out-using his power and influence on impressionable young men and boys in such a way verges on the abusive. Hamilton has already proved himself a distinguished historian; as a psychotherapist he's distinctly amateur. The Full Monty that emerges here is anything but. -John Crace.
Edition: English
Publication date: 1995-12-31
Dewey code: 941.08092
RRP: £29.95
Price: £28.99
Review Far from a Donkey: Life of General Sir Ivor Maxse / Brassey's (UK) Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-08-28
Dewey code: 973.73092
RRP: £22.99
Price: £22.46
Review Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865 (American Crisis) / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers:
Edition: Rev. 03/18/03
Publication date: 2003-04-16
Dewey code: 974.71044
RRP: £7.35
Price: £4.32
Review A Commuter's Story- 9-11 / AuthorHouse:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £11.50
Price: £4.65
Review Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption / University of Pittsburgh Press:
Publication date: 2006-06-20
Dewey code: 940.44994092
RRP: £18.00
Price: £10.59
Review Australian Hawk Over the Western Front: A Biography of Major R.S.Dallas DSO, DSC, C De G Avec Palme / Grub Street:
Edition: 1st Scribner Hardcover Ed
Publication date: 2008-04-08
Dewey code: 956.70443092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.71
Review I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story / Pocket Books:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-07
Dewey code: 363.232
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.68
Review The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States (South End Press Classics Series) / South End Press,U.S.:
Publication date: 1943
Review BURMA SURGEON. / W:
Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.56
Review Staying Human Through The Holocaust / University of Calgary Press:
Creator: Art Spiegelman
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-08-22
Dewey code: 940.5400207
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.41
Review Dr.Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel / The New Press:
Creator: Peter Paret
Publication date: 1993-04
Dewey code: 940.5485
RRP: £22.50
Price: £28.95
Review Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-45 (Modern War Studies) / University Press of Kansas:
Publication date: 2008-02-15
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £17.50
Price: £13.15
Review Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915 / University of South Carolina Press:
Authors
- Bill Griffiths
- Hugh Popham
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £12.95
Price: £19.95
Review Blind to Misfortune: Story of Great Courage in the Face of Adversity / Pen & Sword Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-12-01
Dewey code: 070.92
RRP: £9.95
Price: £2.91
Review The Rage and the Pride / Universe Publishing (Incorporated, Div. of Rizzoli:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-12-31
Dewey code: 973.91092
RRP: £25.50
Price: £20.03
Review Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism / New York University Press:
Authors
- Helen McPhail
- Philip Guest
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £9.95
Price: £5.10
Review Wilfred Owen: On a Poet's Trail - On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe) / Pen & Sword Books Ltd:
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait of Her Private Years, Guns and Barbed Wire: Child Survives the Holocaust, The Full Monty: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942 Vol 1 (The full Monty), Far from a Donkey: Life of General Sir Ivor Maxse, Robert E. Lee and the Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865 (American Crisis), A Commuter's Story- 9-11, Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption, Australian Hawk Over the Western Front: A Biography of Major R.S.Dallas DSO, DSC, C De G Avec Palme, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story, The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States (South End Press Classics Series), BURMA SURGEON., Staying Human Through The Holocaust, Dr.Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel, Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-45 (Modern War Studies), Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915, Blind to Misfortune: Story of Great Courage in the Face of Adversity, The Rage and the Pride, Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism, Wilfred Owen: On a Poet's Trail - On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War (Battleground Europe) |
