Film Club: Dunkirk (2017) | RSS.com
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Film Club: The Big Short (2015) | RSS.com
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Film Club: Argo (2012) | RSS.com
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, by Max Hastings
The Cuban Missile Crisis was Kennedy's finest hour, when the world was at the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
I have read a good deal about the Kennedys, both generally and in research detail when one of my detective novels featured the family patriarch, Joe, as a character. Joe Kennedy was not a very nice man, and he passed on some of his less pleasant characteristics to...
Episode 121
Winston Churchill with David Reynolds | RSS.com
1066 and the Battle for the Island Kingdom
The Battle of Hastings was the culmination of decades of struggle for power.
Battle for the Island Kingdom Mention “1066” to any history buff and you will immediately bring to mind the “Year of Three Battles,” in which Vikings, Normans and Anglo-Saxons fought it out for mastery of England. The struggle ended, violently, with the climactic...
Historians & Hollywood
Historians have been keen to give their opinions on the latest Napoleon movie.
Yet another film on Napoleon and, inevitably it seems, yet more myths are added to the old. As Simon Schama nicely observed, Ridley Scott and his ilk are not content with ‘just making films about Napoleon so much as climbing into his saddle, beguiled by the siren song...
Episode 120
The History of Conspiracies with Jonn Elledge | RSS.com
Philip W. Blood on Putin’s War
A new book looks at the Russo-Ukrainian War from social media to Putin's genocidal tendencies.
Philip W. Blood, many congratulations on this fascinating collection of essays. Why did you want to embark on this project? Thank you. The impetus to write the book originally followed from posting an open access paper on academic websites. The paper postulated that...