All posts tagged "World War II"
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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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Biography
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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Historical Fiction
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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Biography
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
March 31, 2024Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
February 15, 2024The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
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Art
The Art of Japanese Internment Camps at the Renwick Gallery
January 23, 2024An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
January 6, 2024And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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History
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
December 29, 2023Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
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Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
December 25, 2023Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
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