All posts tagged "World War I"
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Literary Themes
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Economics
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
March 5, 2025Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
January 21, 2025Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
Thrillers
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
December 25, 2024But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
Espionage
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
May 6, 2024The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West...
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