Amis's book unfolds in the early 1970s in Italy where, a decade after the arrival of the pill, a group of Brits gathered in a castle go through their iteration of the sexual revolution.
Serving in his current position since 2006, Vickers was also an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, where he served a decade in First Nations communities in the Northwest Territories, worked in major crime units, and then helped create the National Strategy for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation on the Internet.
It was also ill-judged and irresponsible for the defence secretary, Liam Fox, to compare the action in Libya to the continuing campaign in Afghanistan where, a decade on, Britain currently has about 11,000 combat troops deployed.
Pelham tells some heartening stories: ayatollahs hosting a book fair in the Iraqi Shia shrine city of Najaf - in a land where after a decade of sectarian strife 26% still marry outside their sect; Israel "rabbis for human rights" expressing solidarity with Palestinians in the occupied territories.
What the debacle of Burgess and Maclean was for the world of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in the early 70s, so 9/11 is for the international intelligence community in this tense drama, set among quarrelling spies in Hamburg, where a decade previously the WTC kamikaze attacks had been planned.
The origin of hamburger is unknown, but the hamburger patty and sandwich were probably brought by 19th-century German immigrants to the United States, where in a matter of decades the hamburger came to be considered an archetypal American food.
Mendes began his theatre career at the Chichester Festival theatre before founding the Donmar Warehouse in London where he spent a decade in charge.
In a country where, almost a decade after the end of apartheid, the races seldom live side by side, Happy's blond head bobbed in a sea of tight black curls.
What might have happened if the Pats had gone to their two-minute offense about ten minutes sooner will remain, one suspects, one of those Bucky Dent questions in Boston, where a decade of champions seems barely to have soothed the appetite for hurt.
He transferred to Stamford School in Lincolnshire, where a decade previously Malcolm Sargent had been a pupil.
