Players stress importance of unity and describe how war affects their preparations for the tournament
YOU don’t have to be an avid boxing fan to enjoy this book.
In fact, I highly recommend anyone who isn’t in love with the sport to pick it up: by the end, not only will you have a new-found respect for those who put on the the gloves, you will find yourself scouring YouTube for old fights of the men mentioned in it.
For someone with only a passing interest in boxing, mostly down to John Wight’s columns in the Star, I was gripped from start to finish by his words.
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so improbable it was once dismissed as fiction
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher


