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Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Hanna Diamond. Oxford University Press
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Hanna Diamond. Oxford University Press [pounds sterling]16.99. xv + 255 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-280618-5. The capitulations of France to the Germans in 1940 inevitably meant the loss of Paris, the prize which had eluded Wilhelm II in 1914. The threat of Nazi occupation caused panic. The departure...
Jihad amid the dreaming spires
The chaos and fear wrought by Islamic extremism this week would, ordinarily, seem a thousand miles from what we call the 'Oxford bubble'. Shocking, of course, most students would say, but emerging from this latest essay crisis is of greater immediate worry. And until this term, I'd think you crazy...
Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges.(Book review)
Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges. By Marvine Howe. Oxford University Press, 2005.448 pp. $29.95, paper. Morocco has been praised by the World Bank for having "one of the most successful programs of human development and political liberalization in the Middle East...
New Sources of Development Finance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
NEW SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE A.B. Atkinson, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 251 pages The urgent need for increased development aid promises to be high on the international agenda for 2005. In Europe, the newly committed Blair government takes on both the...
Flat-earth fighters; Animal-rights extremists.
New laws to catch people-haters face the same problem as the old ones IF AWARDS were given for thinking up new ways to frighten people, Britain's animal-rights extremists would win lots of them. Their inventiveness and determination has frightened the government too. The ...
The Prince Rupert of Toryism.(Commons Sense)(Biography)
The Prince Rupert of Toryism Richard Vyvyan (18100-79) CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION In early nineteenth century evoked strongly hostile reactions from some: none more so than from Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, the subject of this month's sketch by Terry ...
No free lunches
Electronic Bandolier is free to users: any user, anywhere on the planet, can access our pages free of charge. But electronic Bandolier is not free to produce. We are immensely grateful to the Oxford University Medical School Information Management Services unit for making space on its servers, and the bandwidth,...
Wright, Jonathan Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman.(Book Review)
Oxford: Oxford University Press 610 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-19-821949-0 Publication Date: January 2002 Germany's first attempt to live under a truly democratic political system began in 1919 and ended badly in 1933. Most literature on this period focuses on "Weimar," Munich, and Adolf Hitler....
Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act.(Book Review)
Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act Edward Pearce Jonathan Cape 343 pp. 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-224-06199-2 HISTORY TODAY BOOKSHOP PRICE 17 [pounds sterling] ON MARCH 1ST, 1831,...
Busch, Peter All the Way with JFK? Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
New York: Oxford University Press 256 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-19-925639-X Publication Date: January 2003 The Vietnam War remains a focus of attention for scholars, former combatants, and the general public. Many recount personal experiences, some challenge or revise what historians have written, but few...


