Second World War

No blueprint for Putin’s War

The lesson of the Soviet-Finnish War warns us against misunderstanding a war in progress

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The dying days of Nazi Germany

A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view

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Forgotten films

Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories

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The myth of the plucky Brit

Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars

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Castigating Britain

Could an editor not rescue Jonathan Haslam’s new book from triteness?

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The EU is no friend of ours

The European Union’s increasingly open hostility towards Britain has deep historical roots, says Nigel Jones

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Churchill as warlord – how good a strategist was he?

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Winston Churchill’s role in shaping British and the Allies’ military strategy in the Second World War

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Over the top with Boris

The prime minister is trying to portray the Covid pandemic as a war. It isn’t one

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Between war and empire

Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings

Books
Will Biden be America’s Philippe Pétain?

So strong was the media’s desire to get rid of Trump, that they suspended all criticism of the cognitive decline of his successor

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