1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (171+ words) Rhoda Power's remarkable eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution's descent into chaos deserves a new generation of readers. In the Storm: Caught in the Chaos of the Russian Revolution 1917-18, Rhoda Power, Marble Hill, "12. 99 Yet Power provides more than an eyewitness…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (605+ words) The postwar world was built on a quintet of myths " the end of the world, the hero, the monster, the martyr and the final resurrection. They were the glue that held the international system together. The Second World War was…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1217+ words) Reviews'Engelsberg Ideas Hitler's architect of illusions Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, cultivated an image as the 'good Nazi' " a calculated reinvention of his role in the Third Reich. You Are the F'hrer's Unrequited Love, Jean-No'l Orengo, translated by David Watson,…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (359+ words) The trial of the Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann in 1961 was a pivotal moment in the history of the young Israeli state, allowing a collective outpouring of grief over the horrors of the Holocaust. Sixty-five years ago, on 11 April 1961, one of…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (373+ words) Britain's wartime prime minister was heroic and courageous, but his virtues and vices belong to a different age. It is time to find new heroes for the British national pantheon. My concerns are not even about Churchill's views on race…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1386+ words) Engelsberg Ideas Hitler's last days: the first draft of history The bitter end of Hitler's life was reconstructed almost immediately by the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. It remains a classic account. On Wednesday 8 November, 2000, I flew back to London from Madrid…...