This month, it’s for God, Club and Country.
Seth Thevoz is quoted extensively in an article for The Telegraph, about the recent news that Pratt’s Club will be admitting women. While not the end of civilisation as we know it, an interesting debate about shifting sensibilities in Clubland.
“It’s embarrassing, in this day and age to admit you belong to a men-only club. You have to admit to work colleagues you can’t take colleagues to White’s [where women are not even allowed past the door] for drinks, for example. So it isn’t just that clubs need to recruit women, it’s that they need to recruit men who aren’t embarrassed to say they belong to a men-only club.”
This then prompted German Television to run an interview segment for Tagesschau.
The Women Behind the Few by Sarah-Louise Miller was reviewed for The Past magazine.
‘The Women Behind the Few is a tribute to those who devoted their wartime years – and youth – to serving the nation and who overcame, as Miller puts it, ‘prejudice, endured social ostracism and sexism on a daily basis and [who] smashed stereotypes with a clear ability to do what was required but not expected of them’. Well said. This book is a great read, and I highly commend it.’
Sue Dobson appeared in a two-part episode on the podcast Cold War Conversations. She talks about her childhood and what life was like under apartheid, her journey to joining the African National Congress, her recruitment into the armed wing, and her training in the Soviet Union.
Her remarkable story can be found in her memoir Burned, out now.
Fr. Mark Vickers received a splendid review in the City Journal:
‘Well-researched, well-written and unflaggingly lively, Vickers’s book is a model of insightful biography. It is also witty, judicious, and tailor-made for that elusive customer, the general reader. […]
Vickers’s most striking achievement in God In Number 10 is to humanize his prime ministers by showing their struggles to find faith in an office demanding faith at every turn. That most of them failed to do so only underscores the dignity of the effort.
In God In Number 10, a brilliant biographer has recreated them with illuminating empathy.’
Finally, Henry R. Schlesinger’s Honey Trapped, was well reviewed in the New York Sun by Carl Rollyson, the biographer of a great spy-detector, Rebecca West.
‘You will learn some tradecraft, such as the “verbal parole”: an exchange in which, say, the expected answer to, “Haven’t we met in California last summer?” is, “No, I think it was the Hamptons.” Or the use of “signal sites” — in one instance pasting an upside-down postage stamp on a neighborhood map outside a Starbucks to indicate a passport had been delivered.
If you want to be even more up-to-date, check out the last part of Mr. Schlesinger’s book that deals with “cyber honey traps.” That online dating service you are using? Watch out. A number of Israeli soldiers have been fooled, and the consequences have not been sweet.’
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