Francis Phillips


    Choose Your Weapons

    Francis Phillips | 2 May 2010
    A study of British foreign secretaries over two centuries raises perennial questions about international relations.


    The English Marriage

    Francis Phillips | 16 Mar 2010
    A spirited gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.


    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.

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