Openings & Outings
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Openings & Outings

An Anthology

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Openings & Outings

An Anthology

About this book

Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess's widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, with many stops in between, Openings & Outings presents over fifty years of insight, from a writer with endless scope and perspective.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Introduction
  7. Temps perdu
  8. Tangier
  9. May Day in Piest’any
  10. When the Nazis Stole My Painting: And the Austrians Didn’t Much Care
  11. The Dark Lord
  12. TV Tale of Two Windsors
  13. The Girl with the Most Famous Cello in the World
  14. Solti Conducts
  15. Moses with a Machine-Gun
  16. The Vanishing World of Mr Thesiger
  17. The BĂȘte Noire of France’s Left
  18. MiƂosz Among the Ruins
  19. Elie Kedourie’s Achievement
  20. The Anti-Historian
  21. The Unwritten History of the British Empire
  22. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Jerk
  23. Cracked by a Sound
  24. Poet of Self-Pity
  25. Eric Hobsbawm: Lying to the Credulous
  26. Time Stops at Tassili
  27. Gifts of the Desert
  28. No Paella Please. We’re British
  29. A Redundant General and a “Temporary” President
  30. Samarkand
  31. Czech Rule of Lawlessness
  32. The Long Wait of Frau Ilse Hess
  33. A 20th Century Career
  34. Not Their Finest Hour
  35. Enough Said
  36. Thoughts of an Arabist
  37. Here Be Dragons: Robert Fisk at Loose in the Gulf
  38. The Palestinian Pattern
  39. The War of the Arabs
  40. The Other Jubilee
  41. European Union – A Disaster in the Making
  42. The Islamization of Europe?
  43. Europe’s “Terrible Transformation”
  44. What’s in a Boycott?
  45. On the Frontlines of Free Speech
  46. The Trouble with Nark’s Work
  47. Acknowledgments
  48. Index