Review: Agent Running in the Field, by John le Carré
When I learned that John le Carré had a new book coming out, I ordered it in advance and began reading it the day it arrived. I did so because his last book, A Legacy…
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Bernie Sanders: The road to Iowa
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity (23 October 2019). Click here to see the whole issue (PDF). Bernie Sanders has 100 days to change American politics forever. In a little more than…
Review – Target: America, Hitler’s Plan to Attack the United States by James P. Duffy
What a great idea for a book: a review of the all the German plans, some completely bonkers, some plausible, to strike back at the United States during the Second World War. One of the…
Review – The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, by Roger Moorhouse
This is how history should be written. Roger Moorhouse has taken a subject rarely covered in detail despite its obvious importance and done a very thorough job of it. He begins the book by pointing…
Trump, the Kurds and Normandy
The Kurds currently under attack by Turkish forces “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example,” said US president Donald Trump this week. “They mention the…
No to a Turkish invasion of Syria – solidarity with the Kurds!
Five years ago, the Kurdish enclave of Kobane in Northern Syria was besieged by Islamic State fighters, who then seemed to be on an unstoppable march through Iraq and Syria, with cities and towns falling…
Review: The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris
Robert Harris often has the very best ideas for his books, but sometimes the book itself is a real let-down. The Second Sleep is an example of this. First of all, his good idea —…
Review: The President is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
In the 1960’s there was a thriller called The President’s Plane is Missing by Robert J. Serling, the older brother of Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame. As I remember it, the book wasn’t bad….
Die rebellion der Georgier
My article about the rebellion of Georgian soldiers on the Dutch island of Texel in April-May 1945 — often described as the final battle of the second world war in Europe — has appeared in…
The battle for historical memory now playing out on TripAdvisor
A German couple recently went on holiday in the Austrian Alps, and found a four-star hotel in the village of Gerlos. To their shock, in the lobby were two framed photographs of men in World…