Clive Ponting, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $24.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-929587-68-4
In a radical new look at Britain's ``finest hour,'' Ponting ( The Right to Know ) reviews the mythology that grew up around the dramatic events of 1940 (Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, Churchill's inspiring leadership) and concludes that...
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Clive Ponting, Author Henry Holt & Company $35 (584p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6088-1
Most biographies of Conan Doyle have, understandably, emphasized the creation of Sherlock Holmes. Only recently have there been attempts to fully round out Conan Doyle as doctor, athlete, family man, author and crusader. The question Stashower posed
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Clive Ponting, Author Random House (NY) $27.5 (376p) ISBN 978-0-679-43602-7
In this hard, cold look at WWII, Ponting, professor of politics at the Univ. of Swansea, Wales, pays little attention to such matters as heroism, sacrifice or ideals, concentrating instead on the unalloyed truths of the conflict: for instance, that...
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