A. J. P. Taylor could never be dull, least of all in the essay.
The medium was perfect for his qualities. In expression he
displayed elegant brevity: in argument paradox: in knowledge
lightly-worn mastery. The result was an aphoristic concinnity only
perhaps bettered among historians by Macaulay.
Faber are reissuing three volumes of essays expertly assembled
and introduced by Chris Wrigley. This second volume concentrates on
the twentieth-century and, among other virtuoso displays, includes
his controversial reappraisal of the beginnings of the First World
War, 'War by Timetable' in which his relish of the paradox is seen
at its most stimulating.
'Once you start reading, it is hard to stop . . . The style is
always arresting, the conclusions often startling. Taylor's
subjects rage from Trotsky to Churchill, from Bernard Shaw to
Malcolm Muggeridge.' Adam Sisman in the "Observer"
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