The Age of Treachery: 1946 in books
I'm not saying that Duncan Forrester, who had a fairly busy year in 1946, read all the books here, but at least he might have picked them up in Foyles, Hatchards or even W. H., Smith and considered buying them. Certainly, as a historian of the ancient world, he would have taken notice of this January offering: It was the first of a new series to be known as the Penguin Classics, and was a translation by E. V. Rieu. Over the next ten years it was to become Britain's best-selling book, and...