Francis Phillips
Finest Years
Francis Phillips | 22 Jan 2010
Churchill was a giant among men and it is bracing to read of real leadership when so often we are led by pygmies.
A witness who paid the price
Francis Phillips | 29 Dec 2009
The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was charismatic, courageous and controversial
Americans in Paris
Francis Phillips | 11 Dec 2009
Unlike the proprietor of Rick's Café Américain in Casablanca, some of his compatriots stayed in Paris.
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Francis Phillips | 4 Nov 2009
Lenin was an expert in kindling revolutions, but he would have been puzzled by the one which took place in 1989 in Eastern Europe.
What is civilization?
Francis Phillips | 24 Aug 2009
Everyone is in favour of civilization, but exactly what is it? A British intellectual has taken up the challenge of defining a very slippery concept.
Testament of Youth
Francis Phillips | 29 Jul 2009
A new edition of Vera Brittain’s witness to a generation’s experience of war invites rediscovery of this classic.
The Weight of a Mustard Seed
Francis Phillips | 1 Jul 2009
The general who commanded Saddam Hussein's troops during the First Gulf
War was a fundamentally decent man caught in a web of corruption.
Chinese Whispers
Francis Phillips | 9 Jun 2009
As a young and fanatical Maoist, Jan Wong betrayed a friend during the Cultural Revolution. Decades later she discovers what happened.
A Postcard from the Volcano
Francis Phillips | 3 Jun 2009
A deeply moving historical novel about the conflict between Christian culture and the seductive ideology of pagan Nazism.
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