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- The attempted assassination of Mussolini
- Nicolo Bombacci: Communist, Fascist and Horseshoe Theorist…
- On freedom of speech, Big Tech and Ashli Babbitt…
- Warsaw 1920 – the Battle that saved Europe from Communism … and you’ve probably never heard of it
- “Darkest Hour” – a review
- Hacksaw Ridge – a hurrah for the forgotten heroes of war
- Martin Bormann – and the flight from common sense
- “1944 – Forced to Fight” – a historian’s review
- “Blitzed” by Norman Ohler – a historian’s review
- “Anthropoid” – a historian’s review
- Was Hitler a Zionist?
- Houellebecq – “Submission” – a review
- “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible” by Peter Pomerantsev – a review
- Volkswagen – founded by the Nazis – felled by eco-fibbing
- “Portrait of a Soldier” – a quite remarkable film.
- Antonio Gramsci – the most important political thinker that you’ve probably never heard of…
- On Hitler’s Teeth – or, the Death of a Dictator.
- A Danish adventure
- The republication of “Mein Kampf” – a storm in a camomile teacup…
- The Wannsee Conference – Some thoughts on a dark anniversary
- Sleepwalking… and the Nightmare that was Kaiser Wilhelm
- The forgotten battlefield at Leuthen…
- My review of Tim Butcher’s “The Trigger”
- Defending the indefensible – Vladimir Putin on the Nazi-Soviet Pact
- Hitler biographies – Do we really need another one?
- NKVD massacre site discovered – one of many?
- The Guardian review of my “Devils’ Alliance” – a response
- Gottland – by Mariusz Szczygiel – a review
- “The Gun: The AK-47” by C.J. Chivers – a review
- “Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter” – a historian’s review
- The Fortress at Brest – a story of heroism, sacrifice and unreconstructed Soviet historiography
- The Saga of the Dornier 17
- A glimpse into criminal history – The Kripo report on Paul Ogorzow’s first victim.
- “Max Manus – Man of War” – a review
- On Hitler and Chemical Weapons
- “Survivor on the River Kwai” by Reg Twigg, an ‘on the spot’ review…
- The Reichstag Fire – an end to the controversy…?
- Pertti Ahonen’s “Death at the Berlin Wall” – a review
- “Eva Braun: Life with Hitler” by Heike Görtemaker – a review
- On UKIP (and Seasick Steve)…
- “Hitler’s Hangman” by Robert Gerwarth, a review
- The Rosenstrasse Protest – Myth and Reality
- On Socialism and National Socialism
- The “Mössingen General Strike”
- Christmas Books…
- Hitler and his ‘charisma’
- The Missing of World War One
- What to do with Hitler’s House?
- The curious death of Ideology…
- Anna Reid’s “Leningrad: City under Siege” – a review
- Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan
- The faded – and fading – glory of Versailles
- Leipzig and Wroclaw – a curious symmetry
- Hitler in Lederhosen
- “Building the Revolution” – if you must
- History Books of the Year for 2011
- “Very Well – Semi-detached”
- Nazi Silly Season
- Fuhrerbau in Munich
- Of Fascists and Islamofascists
- Third Reich Tour “Controversy”
- Tim Snyder’s “Bloodlands”
- Adrian Weale’s “SS – A New History”
- Trautmann’s Journey
- Toby Thacker’s biography of Goebbels reviewed…
- Katyn
- Red Army cemetery in Wroclaw
- The Retreat – A Review
- The curious tale of Peter the Wild Boy
- Death toll from the notorious bombing of Dresden
- Gedenkbuch Berlin
- 9th November – A Day that will live in History
- Of Skulls, Suicides and Conspiracists
- Playing Politics with World War Two
- On Memory, History and Human Experience
- Russia – Is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
- Twittering on liberty in Iran
- Paul Ogorzow – the Nazi Serial Killer.
- 1989 – It began in Poland
- Germans are proud again – and a good thing too.
- Christa Schroeder – “He Was My Chief”
- A ‘Piece of Paper’ ….
- Hooray for England and St George.
- Interview with Adolf Burger, an Auschwitz survivor and a veteran of the largest forgery operation in history – Operation Bernhard.
- Of White Horses and Horsesh*t…
- “Haunted City – Nuremberg and the Nazi Past” by Neil Gregor
- “Hitler’s Private Library” by Timothy Ryback
- The Road to Hell
- “Valkyrie” – A Historian’s Review
- “Defiance” – a historian’s review
- “Valkyrie” – Tom Cruise
- The Reich’s Last Gamble
- Nelson, Victory and War
- Alfred Naujocks
- “Hitler the Comedian”
- “Endgame 1945:” by David Stafford
- “Dunkirk – Fight to the Last Man”
- “The Berlin Wall” by Frederick Taylor
- AK47 – The Story of the People’s Gun
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