WWII
Leading by tantrum
Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
Reel hell of the Western Front
The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
We shouldn’t handle the truth about Coronavirus
There are grown-up reasons for the state and the plague is one
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Cities risen from ashes
75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics