Bomb birth in wartime saga under scrutiny
Review of Stephane Groueff’s The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb notes the author relies on memories and claimed access to classified material. It highlights Groves as a central figure, the industrial focus of Oak Ridge Hanford and Los Alamos, and contrasts technical debates with narrative soap opera elements.
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Stephane Groueff
Collins
Price
Henry D. Smyth
Hiroshima
Margaret Gowing
Britain
Atomic Energy
US Atomic Energy Commission
Groueff
General Groves
Oak Ridge
Hanford
Los Alamos
Groveff
Groves
Los Alamos Laboratory
Earth
Japan
SOME NEW NOVELS SOME NEW NOVELS THE SO BELOVED
Jane Vansittart and Milena Milani headline recent releases. Vansittart reconstructs Henry Lawrence and Honoria Lawrence during the Indian Mutiny era, highlighting their bond and Lucknow siege. Milani’s first English translation portrays a troubled young girl in wartime Italy seeking escape through risky sexual exploration.
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Jane Vansittart
Henry Lawrence
Honoria
Milena Milani
Frost biography by Thompson portrays a complex, flawed poet
The review surveys Lewrence Thompson's official Frost biography 1874 to 1915, noting thorough sourcing, unflattering portrait, and restrained narrative. Frost is shown as sensitive yet lazy, boastful, and emotionally volatile, with life events traced from school to Harvard and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strachey
Thompson
Frost
Hhe
Professor Thompson
Overcrowded Pacific Isles
Norma McArthur surveys Pacific island population trends from early censuses to postwar growth, questioning earlier depopulation claims. The study covers Gilbert and Ellice, Western Samoa, and other groups, highlighting rising numbers, slow economic growth, and debates over data reliability and future implications.
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Rivers
Melanesia
Gilbert and Ellice
Western Samoa
Central
Eastern Pacific
Norma McArthur
High Country Photobook Showcases Dramatic Snow Country
A vivid travel photography and essay book by Helmut Gritscher and Craig McGregor exploring southern NSW and Victoria. Gritscher’s striking images of alpine scenes, wildlife, and hydroelectric schemes pair with McGregor’s text to reveal Australia’s high country as dramatic and unique.
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Helmut Gritscher
Craig McGregor
Amgus & Robertson
Nsw
Victoria
Gritscher
Europe
Austria
Lebanon
United States
Life
National Geographic
Ski
Australia
McGregor
Short history of Australia review by Russell Ward
A critique of Russell Ward's Short History of Australia. The revised Ure Smith edition costs 395 and includes durable hardback and pictures. The reviewer praises Ward's narrative balance and international perspective while noting too little focus on pre 1914 myths and insufficient treatment of post 1914 urban and economic development. The work is seen as graceful, well organized and entertaining within its genre.
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Australia
Ward
Britain
Brief Reviews Black Angels by Bruce Jay Friedman
American short story writer Bruce Jay Friedman speaks to our time with six etc. (Note: The provided text is fragmented and includes errors. a concise, factual card is produced from readable elements.)
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Black Angels
Bruce Jay Friedman
Jonathan Cape
Price
New Yorker
America
Reference books crowd a bustling 1960s shop shelf
A lively catalog lists diverse reference books with prices from 95 cents to 10.75, highlighting Guinness Book of Olympic Records and Australian references. It notes updated editions, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, pharmacopoeias, and a collector’s item on the Sydney Opera House era, with several publishers and series named.
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Angus and Robertson
Guinness
Australia
Commonwealth
Emerson Curtis Reed
Sydney
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Cooper
Chicago
Friel
Hodder & Stoughton
Lucknow
Miss Vanaittart
Sir Henry
Jules
Hutchinson
Miss Milani
Italy
Paris
Robert Frost
Lewrance Thompson
Johnson
Dartmouth University
Elinor White
Harvard
William James
England
Boston
Ezra
Pound
Yeats
Cn Gloues Shire
Oone
Lascelles Abercrombie
W. W. Gibson
Edward Thomas
Virginia Woolf
Pacific Isles
H. C. Brookfield
Pacific
Canberra
Canu Press
Pacific Islands
Fiji
New Guinea
McArthur
ANU
Snowy River
Guthega
By J. D. B. Miller
Russel Ward
Ure Smith
Prentice - Hall
Angus & Robertson
Die
Roger
Penguin
Everyman
Grosset
Estes Pharmacopoeia
Martindale
Pharmaceutical Press
NCOC
S. Opera House
Michael Baume
Nelson
ANGUS
Robertson Ltd
Sere Rotem
Ee St
Fyshwick
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