The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* Robert McCrum 25/11/01 R 16 1>6 Photographs
* Stephanie Merritt 02/12/01 R 18 1>6 Photographs
* Robert McCrum 09/12/01 R 18 1>6 Photographs
* Robert McCrum 16/12/01 R 18 1>6 Photographs
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
* Department of Trade & Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt on
what the UK hopes and fears 04/11/01 N 4 6>8 Photograph
* Success at this week's trade talks is crucial, but are they
doomed from the start? 04/11/01 N 4 1>5 Photographs
* China was finally admitted to the World Trade Organisation
yesterday 11/11/01 B 28 7>8
WORLD WAR 3.0
* See Book Reviews - Preston, Peter 21/01/01
WORLD WAR I
* How war artists censored Lord Kitchener's squint in the
famous Great War poster - see Kitchener, Lord 14/01/01
* Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the First World War
commander, issued orders that more officers should be executed
for cowardice in bid to strengthen the fighting spirit of the
troops 11/02/01 B 14 6>7 Photograph
* Report on World War I flying ace, Major Jack Poole's legacy
in Sudan - his son Arthur and grandson George - see
International Affairs: Africa 21/10/01
WORLD WAR I & II
* The Royal British Legion has plans for a roll of honour
website to remember servicemen who died in the two world wars
and may include victims of atrocities 11/11/01 B 14 1>6
Photographs
WORLD WAR II
* Pearl Harbour survivors attack new Hollywood movie - see
Film 04/02/01
* Drilling has started in the waters of Scapa Flow, Orkney,
where the Royal Oak, sank in 1939 fully fuelled, to stem the oil
leak which is a threat to wildlife - see Environment 18/02/01
* Sixty years after a British RAF pilot was shot down in a World
II dogfight, his remains have been found in the wreckage of his
plane at a French seaside village 25/03/01 B 24 1>8
Photographs
* The widow of a war pilot whose remains have been found in
France, tells of her life and loss 01/04/01 B 13 1>6 Photographs
* How Germany's leader finally found his father - see
International Affairs: Europe 22/04/01
* British Intelligence bugging of German PoW's chit-chat
reveals that Nazi atrocities against women and children were no
secret - see Holocaust, The 20/05/01
* Savage acts that Allied soldiers were driven to commit in the
Pacific theatre are about to be exposed 03/06/01 B 10 1>8
Photographs
* Robert McCrum finds new evidence that the comic writer P.G.
Wodehouse was naïve and not a traitor in the second world war -
see Wodehouse, P.G. 17/06/01
* Inside the holiday camp Hitler built on the Baltic Coast - see
Travel 12/08/01
* Nazis in Britain: the UK has been a haven to 400 Nazi
murderers - see Nazis 02/09/01
* Emilie Schindler, the widow of the industrialist Oskar
Schindler who saved more than 1000 Jews from the gas
chamber, has died a few days short of her 94th birthday in
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Germany - see Schindler, Emilie 07/10/01
* Historians and war veterans have attacked the makers of
'Enigma' the new British blockbuster, for producing a film that is
a 'travesty of history' - see Film 07/10/01
* What is the truth about P.G. Wodehouse's relationship with the
Nazi? Robert McCrum has unearthed startling new evidence
thanks to a meeting with one of Plum's fellow wartime... - see
Wodehouse, P.G. 18/11/01
* Blockaded by the Germans, the half-starved citizens of
Leningrad mounted an extraordinary act of resistance… they
blasted the Nazi tanks with Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony
25/11/01 M 16>28 1>4 Photographs
* Street battles erupt in Berlin as neo-Nazis back Hitler's army
over atrocities - see Neo-Nazis 02/12/01
* The Kremlin accuses Germans of 'making us look like Nazis'
at atrocity museum - see International Affairs: Russia 23/12/01
WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL
* See Book Reviews - Griffiths, Joanna 08/04/01
WRIGHT, MATTHEW
* The Mirror's former show business writer Matthew Wright,
wrote a damming article on David Soul's play The Dead Monkey
even though he did not see it - see Media 09/12/01
WRITERS
* Alan Bennett, one of Britain's best-loved writers and
performers, is suffering from a debilitating bout of writer's block
- see Bennett, Alan 09/12/01
* Eight years after the death of Anthony Burgess, two
biographers are racing to complete what promise to be very
different accounts of his life - see Burgess, Anthony 09/12/01
* The reclusive widow of Anthony Burgess, author of A
Clockwork Orange, has hit out at a biographer she fears will
brand her late husband a paedophile - see Burgess, Anthony
09/12/01
* The highly acclaimed German-born writer W.G. Sebald, author
of the cult novels Austerlitz and Vertigo, has been killed in a
road accident in Norfolk at the age of 57 - see Deaths 16/12/01
* J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels has secretly
married - see Rowling, J.K. 30/12/01
WURM, ERWIN
* See Photography 14/01/01
WYATT, ROBERT
* This year's Meltdown Festival in London promises to be as
gently eccentric as its maverick curator, Robert Wyatt 27/05/01
R 6 1>5 Photograph
XENOPHOBIA
* John Hooper, journalist and writer on Europe for 13 years, says
our xenophobia is beyond a joke 02/09/01 B 16 1>6
Photographs
YAMANI, SHEIKH
* Sheikh Yamani tells Oliver Morgan of his exasperation at
Opec's quota-busting members - see Oil Industry 30/09/01
YOGA
* It was once dismissed as a mere New Age fad, now yoga is
taking Britain by storm thanks to our obsession with health,
exercise and celebrity 17/06/01 B 16 1>6 Photographs
YOUNG ADOLF
* See Audiobook Reviews - Redford, Rachel 11/02/01