Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frankness may startle," writes Haig, "and, at moments, it has been painful to write the truth." But, he adds, "I could not do otherwise." In the final excerpt from his memoir, Haig recounts: ∎Concerns that Poland would explode in violence. ∎"My Waterloo"-his venture at shuttle diplomacy in the Falklands crisis. ∎Israel's invasion of Lebanon. ∎How he lost his battle to win Ronald Reagan's support...
...buys a video memoir...
...interest: for the past five months a book titled Where Germany Lies, written by Günter Gaus, 53, who served from 1974 to 1981 as West Germany's first diplomatic representative to East Germany, has been on the West German bestseller list. The attraction of Gaus' memoir seems to be its openly nostalgic quest for a lost sense of German national identity within the economically less advanced East. "People in the East kept what West Germans surrendered," Gaus says. "The power to persevere grew over there, while it evaporated quickly here." Confronted with the relative backwardness...
...beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier books and added long historical sections to his novel August...
...memoir The Other Side of the Story, to be published by William Morrow in April, Powell does what he accuses journalists of doing: he makes no effort to be unbiased. He writes, "White House correspondents will look in vain for the scoops. What they will find are the stories that seem to me to be wrong and unfair...