2+ week, 5+ day ago  (323+ words) Jean-No'l Orengo, translated by David Watson Penguin, pp. 272, "14. 99 Speer left quite an impression on the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, too, who wrote in The Last Days of Hitler: If [Speer] seems sometimes to have fallen too deeply under the spell of…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago  (858+ words) The Spectator Why Americans are at peace with war Why is America always at war? Sizable minorities on both the left and the right want America to intervene in fewer foreign conflicts and to exercise more restraint in foreign policy....

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (182+ words) Atlantic Books, pp. 382, "22 Buruma follows disparate groups of Germans " some ardent Nazis, a very few silent dissidents, a small number of surviving Jews and the majority of people who were neither cynics nor bullies nor ideological fanatics but simply conformed,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (207+ words) The German air force extracted thousands of extra kills from a few pounds of iron and ribbon To earn a Knight's Cross, a pilot needed to amass a certain tally of aerial "victories. The quotas were officially discretionary but universally…...

2+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (355+ words) Suzuki has captured hearts and headlines in one of the most effective public diplomacy campaigns we've seen in a long time On paper, that is what ambassadors are supposed to do, but as Suzuki's visit to Glasgow illustrates, this is…...