CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Paul Addison
• Jonathan Barnes
• Julian Barnes
• John Bayley
• Robert Blake
• Angus Calder
• John Campbell
• William Doyle
• Paul Driver
• Anthony Edkins
• Ian Hamilton
• R.W. Johnson
• D.A.N. Jones
• Colin McGinn
• Alan Milward
• J.M. Roberts
• Alan Ryan
• Joel Shurkin
• E.P. Thompson
• Blair Worden

Contents

• R.W. Johnson
  Proportional Representation casts a shadow over France

• Letters
  Peter Thomas, Leo Daugherty, Jean MacGibbon, Matthew Kalman, Ian and David Gilmour, Joseph Alsop, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Julian Barnes, Paul Edwards, Michael Levey, Ian MacKillop, Rod Edmond

• Joel Shurkin

  • Clouds of Deceit: The Deadly Legacy of Britain’s Bomb Tests by Joan Smith
  • Fields of Thunder: Testing Britain’s Bomb by Denys Blakeway and Sue Lloyd-Roberts

• Paul Addison

  • The Writing on the wall: Britain in the Seventies by Phillip Whitehead

• E.P. Thompson
  Poem: ‘Powers and Names’

• Angus Calder

  • Now the war is over: A Social History of Britain 1945-51 by Paul Addison
  • England First and Last by Anthony Bailey
  • A World Still to Win: The Reconstruction of the Post-War Working Class by Trevor Blackwell and Jeremy Seabrook
  • The Issue of War: States, Societies and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945 by Christopher Thorne
  • The Hiroshima Maidens by Rodney Barker
  • Faces of Hiroshima: A Report by Anne Chisholm
  • End of Empire by Brain Lapping
  • Outposts by Simon Winchester

• Jonathan Barnes

  • The Prehistory of Flight by Clive Hart

• Alan Ryan

  • English Society 1688-1832 by J.C.D. Clark
  • Virtue, Commerce and History by J.G.A. Pocock

• Blair Worden

  • International Calvinism 1541-1715 edited by Menna Prestwich
  • Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in 17th-Century London by Paul Seaver

• Robert Blake

  • Cardinal Manning: A Biography by Robert Gray

• J.M. Roberts

  • Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth by Joseph Bergin
  • Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600-1814 by Kathryn Norberg
  • France 1789-1815: Revolution and Counter-Revolution by D.M.G. Sutherland

• John Bayley

  • Love in a Cool Climate: The Letters of Mark Pattison and Meta Bradley 1879-1884 by Vivian Green

• Anthony Edkins
  Poem: ‘Nature Notes’

• William Doyle

  • Frederick the Great: A Military Life by Christopher Duffy
  • Society, Government and the Enlightenment: The Experiences of 18th-Century France and Prussia by C.B.A. Behrens
  • Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg 1529-1819 by Joachim Whaley

• Alan Milward

  • Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant edited by Henry Ashby Turner, translated by Ruth Hein
  • Blood and Soil: Walther Darré and Hitler’s ‘Green Party’ by Anna Bramwell
  • Industry and Politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler and Europe by John Gillingham
  • Geschichte der Deutschen Kriegswirtschaft 1939-1945. Vol. II: 1941-1943 by Dietrich Eichholtz

• Julian Barnes

  • Flaubert and Turgenev: A Friendship in Letters translated by Barbara Beaumont

• John Campbell

  • David Low by Colin Seymour-Ure and Jim Schoff

• Colin McGinn

  • The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
  • Stones of the Wall by Dai Houying, translated by Frances Wood
  • White Noise by Don DeLillo

• Paul Driver

  • Dearest Bubushkin: Selected Letters and Diaries of Vera and Igor Stravinsky edited by Robert Craft
  • Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Vol. III edited by Robert Craft