Reviews
'The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes.'R.A.C.Parker, English Historical Review., "An extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked by politics."-- Sunday Telegraph "Intensely interesting....[This] collection of letters exchanged between Trott and his Oxford friend, Shiela Grant Duff, who worked as a foreign correspondent before the war....record how politics divided two idealists who had set out to create a model friendship. Each was a little in love with the other, but not enough. Both believed at first in 'the fundamental integrity of Europe.' Events forced them apart.", "An extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked by politics."--Sunday Telegraph "Intensely interesting....[This] collection of letters exchanged between Trott and his Oxford friend, Shiela Grant Duff, who worked as a foreign correspondent before the war....record how politics divided two idealists who had set out to create a model friendship. Each was a little in love with the other, but not enough. Both believed at first in 'the fundamental integrity of Europe.' Events forced them apart.", 'This book was worth publishing for the light it throws on the inwardness of those years ... a telling contribution to history and especially to what led to the renewal of war' The Spectator, '... an extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked by politics.' Robert Skidelsky, Sunday Telegraph, '... an extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked bypolitics.' Robert Skidelsky, Sunday Telegraph, 'Professor von Klemperer, an exemplary editor, has brought almost the entire correspondence together in a book that illuminates not just the writers, but the 1930s in European history.' The Economist, 'This book was worth publishing for the light it throws on the inwardnessof those years ... a telling contribution to history and especially to what ledto the renewal of war' The Spectator, 'The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes'.R.A.C. Parker, English Historical Review, Oct 1991., 'very carefully edited by Klemens von Klemperer, and no doubt seriousstudents of the inter-war years will find the result rewarding.' The IrishTimes, 'very carefully edited by Klemens von Klemperer, and no doubt serious students of the inter-war years will find the result rewarding.' The Irish Times, 'The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes.'R.A.C.Parker, English Historical Review.'Professor von Klemperer, an exemplary editor, has brought almost the entire correspondence together in a book that illuminates not just the writers, but the 1930s in European history.' The Economist'This book was worth publishing for the light it throws on the inwardness of those years ... a telling contribution to history and especially to what led to the renewal of war' The Spectator'often gripping stuff ... the book has high historical relevance.' The Independent'Some 300 pages of personal letters ... are here accompanied by a very competent introduction and commentary from Professor Klemperer' Financial Times'... an extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked by politics.' Robert Skidelsky, Sunday Telegraph'very carefully edited by Klemens von Klemperer, and no doubt serious students of the inter-war years will find the result rewarding.' The Irish Times'... poignant and extraordinarily powerful.' Artemis Cooper, Weekend Telegraph'a telling contribution to history, and especially to what led to the renewal of war.' Books'The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes'.R.A.C. Parker, English Historical Review, Oct 1991., 'Some 300 pages of personal letters ... are here accompanied by a very competent introduction and commentary from Professor Klemperer' Financial Times, 'The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped withhighly informative notes'.R.A.C. Parker, English Historical Review, Oct 1991., 'Professor von Klemperer, an exemplary editor, has brought almost theentire correspondence together in a book that illuminates not just the writers,but the 1930s in European history.' The Economist
