Midweek Notes

Steve Donoghue,"What the wars between Athens and Sparta can teach us," The National, 19 November, reviews J. E. Lendon's Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins.

Saul Austerlitz reviews Alex Kershaw's The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II, a biography of Raoul Wallenberg, for The National, 12 November ; and Adam Kirsch,"Caught on Film," The Book, 23 November, reviews Dan Porat's The Boy: A Holocaust Story.

John Gray,"Tony Judt's Final Words," Daily Beast, 23 November, reviews Judt's The Memory Chalet.

Finally, farewell to Frank Turner, Yale's John Hay Whitney Professor of History and Director of its Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.