between-the-wars

• “Ms. Edugyan seems to have invented a between-the-wars black jazz-musicians' dialect, which takes some getting used to even if it is true to history.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Time, Again, for Posh Bingo

• “In the between-the-wars years it attracted retired colonials (and colonels) who found something akin to the life they'd been used to in adopting the sun-baked South facing Downland.”

  Village of Mystery

• “The three-part series, which begins next week, packs in more misty scenes of the English countryside, drawing-room dialogue and between-the-wars bittersweetness than even your average PBS extravaganza.”

  Newsweek: Vita &Amp; Violet &Amp; Oh, Yes, Harold

• “If Airth's between-the-wars detective fiction is even half as good as Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir, we will be in high cotton.”

  More from the River of Darkness

• “The lobby reeked of a dark, smoldering sexuality and between-the-wars decadence.”

  Simon & Schuster: Eye of the Beholder

• “In addition, there are encounters with an Aunt Lavinia, a secretly suicidal between-the-wars good-time girl: both this book and The Bad Sister achieve their best subjects in a depiction of the fascinating leisure of a woman of fashion.”

  Ladies in Distress

• “The United States, unlike Germany, did not produce a totalitarian solution to its between-the-wars troubles, argues Barraclough, neglecting to add that Italy did.”

  The Nazi Disease

• “Blundell Jones is selling White Cottage, with four bedrooms, at £1.075 million, still in its original between-the-wars state.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Set during the political volatility of between-the-wars Italy, Hayao Miyazaki's animated 1992 adventure”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Compared with his vanguard associates of the between-the-wars era - Marsden Hartley - he was a flinty pragmatist.”

  NYT > Home Page

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