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Revelatory account of how and why Britain armed brutal dictatorships in 1970s' Chile and Argentina
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-8:
Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements
by Grace Livingstone
(Palgrave Macmillan, £79.99)
DON’T let the rather cumbersome title of Grace Livingstone’s book put you off, even if the price might, because it's a very readable and pioneering work. Although Livingstone is scrupulously accurate and bases her arguments on extensive research, she makes little secret of where her sympathies lie — and they are not with dictators or arms manufacturers.
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