Geoffrey Moorhouse

Geoffrey Moorhouse yields nothing to Robyn Davidson, whose book he reviews, when it comes to a knowledge of camels: his The Fear-ful Void is an account of a 2000-mile trek across the Sahara.

Letter

Blood on his hands

22 October 1992

Soon after my most recent work – Hell’s Foundations: A Town, its Myths and Gallipoli – appeared last April, it was noticed with unqualified approval by, among others, Robert Rhodes James, Thomas Keneally, Dirk Bogarde, Ronald Blythe, Martin Gilbert, John Keegan, Terry Eagleton, Paul West and Jan Morris. All of these have substantial literary credentials. Two of them occupy chairs of Eng. Lit....

The focus of Geoffrey Moorhouse’s book is a great church with one of the most recognisable profiles in Europe: Durham Cathedral. The ‘last office’ – ‘office’...

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Over the top

Graham Coster, 22 October 1992

Gallipoli has not lent itself to literature. The First World War on the Western Front has furnished a body of poetry, prose fiction and memoir so substantial, and so distinguished, as to equip...

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