CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Mary Beard
• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• David Craig
• Robert Crawford
• Charles Glass
• Peter Green
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Dan Jacobson
• Thomas Jones
• Murray Sayle
• Simon Schaffer
• Daniel Soar
• Christopher Tayler
• Susan Watkins

Contents

• Murray Sayle

  • China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75 by Qiang Zhai
  • None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam by George Allen
  • No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam by Larry Berman

• Letters
  James Waterson, Rupert Holroyd, Ian Adveron, Lavinia Cramer, Timothy Mowl, Patrick Parrinder, Leon Lewis, Norah Carlin, Brian Towers, Nancy Kenyon, Richard Boston, Dod Davidson, Tahir Kayani

• Robert Crawford
  Four Poems

• Mary Beard

  • Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell

• Michael Byers
  The World according to Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld on American isolationism

• Eric Hobsbawm
  War and Peace in the 20th Century: Epidemic of War

• Susan Watkins

  • Rosa Luxemburg: An Intimate Portrait by Mathilde Jacob, translated by Hans Fernbach

• Thomas Jones
  Short Cuts: Say Cheese

• Christopher Tayler

  • Spies by Michael Frayn

• Dan Jacobson
  The Price: the concluding part of Dan Jacobson’s interview with Ian Hamilton

• Peter Campbell
  In New Zealand: Timber-frame

• Daniel Soar

  • That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern

• David Craig

  • Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson

• Simon Schaffer

  • His Invention so Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood

• Peter Green

  • The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, the Man who Discovered Britain by Barry Cunliffe
  • Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters edited by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones
  • Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Atlas and Map-By-Map Directory by Richard J.A. Talbert

• Charles Glass
  Diary on Israel’s occupation of Palestine