All posts tagged "World War I"
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History
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
May 29, 2022Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
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Biography
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
May 1, 2022But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
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Blog-Theater
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
July 11, 2021The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
August 16, 2020Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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Biography
Churchill by Paul Johnson
June 18, 2020And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Biography
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
May 26, 2020Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Biography
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
May 17, 2020Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...