All posts tagged "World War II"
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History
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
June 19, 2022This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
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Fiction Reviews
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
June 15, 2022Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that...
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Germany
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
June 15, 2022He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
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Great Britain
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
June 13, 2022I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
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Fiction Reviews
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
June 4, 2022Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
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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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History
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 19, 2022The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
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Books
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 21, 2022Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Books
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 23, 2022The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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