All posts tagged "World War II"
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Military
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.
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
January 13, 2025The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
December 15, 2024Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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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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Books
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
November 16, 2024The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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Movies
The Worst Movies of 2012
October 5, 2024Brett Harrison Davinger and Matt Newlin present their most despised movies of 2012.
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Books
Book review – Judy Battalion’s Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
September 13, 2024Review of BATTALION, JUDY. Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
August 16, 2024Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
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Germany
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
August 9, 2024The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: HHhH by Laurent Binet
July 18, 2024What results, however, is an awkward success story. Unseasonably dedicated to fact and accuracy, positively frightened...
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