PREFACE
MAHMUD ABU SHILBAYAH
HAROLD ACTON
SIDNEY ALEXANDER
SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA
KINGSLEY AMIS
WILLIAM ANDERSON
NOEL ANNAN
W.H. AUDEN
BERYL BAINBRIDGE
ELLIOTT BAKER
ARTURO AND ILSA BAREA
SYBILLE BEDFORD
SAUL BELLOW
BERNARD BERENSON
ISAIAH BERLIN
ADRIAN BERRY
JOHN BETJEMAN
PRINCESS MARTHE BIBESCO
PAUL BOWLES
ARNO BREKER
CHRISTOPHER BURNEY
RAYMOND CARR
JUDY CASSAB
NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI
ALASDAIR CLAYRE
LUCIEN COMBELLE
CYRIL CONNOLLY
ROBERT CONQUEST
ANTHONY DANIELS alias Theodore Dalrymple
PHILIPPE DAUDY
MILOVAN DJILAS
LAWRENCE DURRELL
AMOS ELON
JOHN FULLER
NICHOLAS GAGE
MARTHA GELLHORN
MARTIN GILBERT
PHILIP GLAZEBROOK
HERBERT GOLD
OLEG GORDIEVSKY
MICHAEL GRANT
ROBERT GRAVES
JOHN GROSS
FREDERIC V. GRUNFELD
ROMAN HALTER
ALDOUS HUXLEY
PAUL IGNOTUS
B.S. JOHNSON
DAVID JONES
ERNST JÜNGER
ALFRED KAZIN
ELIE KEDOURIE
J.B. KELLY
ARTHUR KOESTLER
WALTER LAQUEUR
PETER LEVI
BERNARD LEVIN
BERNARD LEWIS
ROSE MACAULAY
KANAN MAKIYA
OLIVIA MANNING
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
JESSICA MITFORD
NANCY MITFORD
DOM MORAES
LAURENT MURAWIEC
V.S. NAIPAUL
HUGH NISSENSON
EDNA O'BRIEN
STANLEY OLSON
IRIS ORIGO
J.B. PRIESTLEY
GWYNEDD RAE
JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL
GREGOR VON REZZORI
ERICH SEGAL
ALAN SILLITOE
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
MURIEL SPARK
ALBERT SPEER
JOHN STEWART
MARK STRAND
AMIR TAHERI
BENJAMIN TAMMUZ
A.J.P. TAYLOR
WILFRED THESIGER
GEORGE WEIDENFELD
DAME REBECCA WEST
MICHAEL WHARTON
ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV
AFTERWORD