The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Over 100 years ago in 1915, a German pilot, Lieutenant Gunther Pluschow, embarked on one of the great adventure stories of the First World War. Told that he was being sent to Donington Hall in Leicestershire, a prisoner of war camp for officers, he resolved to escape,...
There are a number of things that Winston Churchill and Marshal Carl-Gustav Mannerheim – the father of modern Finland - have in common, which engendered in each a certain admiration for the other. They were both aristocrats, cavalrymen, immensely well-travelled...
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? It’s much harder getting into the motivations and mindsets of pre-Enlightenment people, and often requires a higher level of theology than I have. The Enlightenment was the first period in history that the...
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? It’s a whole host of intersecting fascinations, actually. I started off studying Central European history in the aftermath of 1989, then gravitated to Germany – specifically Nazi Germany – which I still...
“Hitler in the bunker” said would-be assassin Claus von Stauffenberg, “that’s the real Hitler”. He was right. Reinforced concrete seemed to follow Hitler like a Wagnerian leitmotiv; his Reich was not only the largest builder of bunkers in history, it also perfected...
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Russian Roulette is the first biography of Graham Greene in a generation. “At last Graham Greene as the biographer he deserves.” The Evening Standard. Richard Greene (no relation) was born in Newfoundland, educated at Oxford, and is a professor of English at the...
Harry Sidebottom is the bestselling author of the Warrior of Rome series, the latest of which, The Return, came out in October. He is Fellow and Director of Studies in Ancient History at St Benet’s Hall, and Lecturer in Ancient History at Lincoln College, University...
When approaching this book, I initially thought that the author would either be preaching to the converted or throwing pearls before swine. We are living in an increasingly polarised world. The old are often pitched against the young and vice-versa, whether the media...
