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“... Alison Uttley had the capacity for joy, in the Wordsworthian sense, she was not a happy woman. Denis Judd, her patient and understanding biographer, explains the intensity of her memories as ‘partly an aesthetic experience, partly a reparation for her later neglect of her parents, partly a compensation for the difficulties of her marriage’. As a ...”

“... to achieve their ends only by supplying their readers with rather less than their titles promise. Denis Judd’s pungent and attractive survey of the British Empire from 1765 to the present tries to solve the problem of a superabundance of material in two ways. Ostensibly he begins his narrative in the late 18th century ‘because this was when the ...”

“... a trifle immodestly – he claims in his Introduction that his material was considered by Denis Brogan in London to be ‘the Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinths of American politics’, it is hard to see Berlin as Theseus in these reports, which veer from matters of local American concern (labour troubles etc) to generalities so general one can ...”