A. J. P. Taylor, 'Caged Lion', New Statesman (20 June 1959), pp. 868-870
• A review of Trotsky's Diary in Exile
• A review of Trotsky's Diary in Exile
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Any scrap of Trotsky's writing is worth having. He can always provide the biting comment, the brilliant pen-portrait.
— A. J. P. Taylor on Leon Trotsky
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• A review of Trotsky's Diary in Exile" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
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