All posts tagged "1940s"
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Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
November 20, 2024Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
August 5, 2024Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Way Back
March 22, 2024The really good character work – and make no mistake, this is a good cast –...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
February 10, 2024In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
December 29, 2023Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
December 20, 2023This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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History
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
December 3, 2023The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
November 24, 2023They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
November 3, 2023Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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