{"id":2815,"date":"2023-04-07T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:33:21","slug":"review-making-history-by-stephen-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-making-history-by-stephen-fry\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Making History, by Stephen Fry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I must be the last person in England to have never read anything by &#8220;national treasure&#8221; Stephen Fry, but this book came up in conversation recently, so I have now done so.  The book had two things I love to read about: time travel and Nazis.  The good news is that Fry (surprise!) writes really well, has a good sense of humour and an obvious intelligence.  And the point he is making (if there is a point) is that the horrors of the Third Reich were not the work of one man acting alone.  He underscores this by referencing Daniel Goldhagen&#8217;s book, Hitler&#8217;s Willing Executioners, at the end.  The bad news is that he needed an editor &#8212; the book is overly long with much that could be cut.  Still, how wrong could you go with a novel about travelling through time to prevent Hitler from being born?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be the last person in England to have never read anything by &#8220;national treasure&#8221; Stephen Fry, but this book came up in conversation recently, so I have now done so. The book had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}