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This slender memoir, written in 1958 but not discovered until Beaverbrook's death at 85 in 1964, is his insider's view of the crisis that shook Britain and at times threatened to topple the throne. The Beaver's main thesis, certain to be debated, is that some supremely powerful opponents of the King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...ordinary childhood, and for all its special moments the sisters later agreed that it might have been better if they had been reared differently. "Better," said Jon, "but not nearly as interesting." Readers of this perhaps too romanticized, but still captivating memoir can agree. And they will also understand why it is that old Mother India never seems to let her adopted children...
...Magician of Lublin, Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry. His work has already commandingly established him as the greatest living master of Yiddish prose and as one of the enduring leaders among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote in Yiddish for New York's Jewish Daily Forward. In translation they are brisk, bright and engagingly exotic. Even readers who have never heard a shofar will recognize the book as a letter from home...
...PASSIONATE PRODIGALITY, by Guy Chapman. This reissue of an authentic classic of World War I is more than an unforgettable memoir of life and death in the trenches; it stands as an elegy for an entire generation...
...marriage was a great success on both sides. In her 60s, she invented an ingenious new form of fiction, part memoir and part essay. At 69, she wrote her most popular story, Gigi. At 76, she produced her finest book of essays, Le Fanal Bleu...