David Pryce-Jones
Arthur Koestler
An extract from the forthcoming second volume of memoirs by David Pryce Jones
The spy who loved us
“The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run”
Gullible Guests of the Nazis
Julia Boyd’s meticulously-researched Travellers in the Third Reich shows visitors to Hitler’s Germany saw only what they wanted to see
Their Own Worst Enemies
Jonathan Schanzer’s State of Failure persuasively argues that Palestine is not a country or state but a cause with the sole intention of destroying the Jews
Israel’s Tragic Hero-Victim
Unapologetic terrorist or revolutionary? Menachem Begin is rightly de-demonised, but not whitewashed, in Avi Shilon’s new biography
Overrated: John Esposito
A sceptical look at America’s leading apologist for Islam, fêted all over Washington from the Saudis to the CIA
Blundering in the Desert
Book review of Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
The View from Panorama Road
Western attitudes towards Israel’s right to nationhood have shifted significantly in the last forty years
A Very Foreign Foreigner
Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell
Amoral Equivalence
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom by Gilles Kepel
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies by Alan Dershowitz
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal