Remembering Clare Hollingworth
January 17, 2017
Ray Moseley— The legendary adventures of Clare Hollingworth’s life are such stuff as Hollywood movies are made on. And, to continue paraphrasing Prospero, her long life is rounded with a… READ MORE
Tag: World War II
Hitler at Home: A Conversation with Despina Stratigakos
November 4, 2015
Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble‑rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid‑1930s. In the brand-new book Hitler at Home, author Despina Stratigakos exposes… READ MORE
Patrick Modiano’s Paris
August 25, 2015
Mark Polizzotti— The Paris of Patrick Modiano’s fictions is a city that no longer exists, and perhaps never did. There is a character and a topology typical of his version… READ MORE
Ukraine between East and West: The Case of Galicia
August 12, 2015
Iryna Vushko— In the twenty-first century, the streets of L’viv in Western Ukraine beam with life. The central squares and coffee shops, packed with people into the wee hours of… READ MORE
Saving Civilization?
July 13, 2015
Robin Prior— I want to highlight the dangers to Western civilization if Britain had succumbed to Nazi Germany in 1940. But to do this, first I’ll make the point, illustrated… READ MORE
Winston Churchill’s Beach Reading: His Top Ten Books
June 29, 2015
Jonathan Rose— More than most politicians, Winston Churchill was an insatiable reader. He loved to schmooze with authors, and what he read profoundly shaped his political worldview. He never actually… READ MORE
Browned Off and Bloody Minded: The British Soldier in WWII
April 28, 2015
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had… READ MORE
The Siege of Bastogne Up Close and Personal
December 3, 2014
In the harsh winter of 1944-45, the month-long battle for Bastogne, a town with a peacetime population of 4,000 and seven roads, claimed 23,000 American and 25,000 German lives. To… READ MORE
How to Give a Great Speech: A Master Class with Winston Churchill
June 25, 2014
Chances are good that you have been asked to speak in public before and will need to speak in public again. Giving a compelling speech is no easy task at… READ MORE
Book Excerpt: A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
April 30, 2014
Follow @yaleRELIbooks Alon Confino‘s A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide centers itself around an important question: Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany… READ MORE
Between Memory and History