All posts tagged "World War II"
Non-Fiction Reviews
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
May 21, 2026Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
Russia
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 14, 2026The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 16, 2026Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 21, 2026The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
Movies
The Worst Movies of 2012
February 8, 2026Brett Harrison Davinger and Matt Newlin present their most despised movies of 2012.
Books
Book review – Judy Battalion’s Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
January 19, 2026Review of BATTALION, JUDY. Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s...
Writers
The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
December 20, 2025Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
December 14, 2025The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: HHhH by Laurent Binet
November 22, 2025What results, however, is an awkward success story. Unseasonably dedicated to fact and accuracy, positively frightened...
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