Books by Norman Lewis
Naples ’44
by Norman Lewis
Naples in 1944 was a city in meltdown. People would do anything to get hold of some food: The black market was rife and people resorted to banditry
Golden Earth
by Norman Lewis
Golden Earth happens to be one of my favourite travel books of all time. That it’s set in Burma is mere frosting on the cake. But what frosting: Burma in the pre-military days of early 1950s as seen through the eyes of the inimitable Norman Lewis.
Interviews where books by Norman Lewis were recommended
The best books on Her Own Burma, recommended by Wendy Law-Yone
Wendy Law-Yone says the same blend of megalomania and mysticism inherent in Burmese despots and witnessed in 17th-century Burma, that dynastic lunacy with delusions of divinity, is still in florid evidence today
Books on the Aftermath of World War II, recommended by Keith Lowe
Postwar Europe was a scene of both physical and moral destruction. Keith Lowe, author of the award-winning Savage Continent, recommends essential reading for understanding the sheer scale of suffering, dislocation and fighting after the war was over.
