This week’s reviews: A doomsday scenario for stocks, a closer look at Queen Victoria’s letters and Hollywood directors in the military
BOOK REVIEWS
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, by James Rickards. Reviewed by Jonathan Chevreau.
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, by Mark Harris. Reviewed by Jaime J. Weinman.
Censoring Queen Victoria: How Two Gentlemen Edited a Queen and Created an Icon, by Yvonne Ward. Reviewed by Patricia Treble.
The Orchard of Lost Souls, by Nadifa Mohamed. Reviewed by Dafna Izenberg.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert. Reviewed by Brian Bethune.
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