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April 11, 2015

Book Review: KL

April 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The sprawling system of concentration camps established by the Nazis gets its first comprehensive history

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April 2015, concentration camps, kl, nazi germany, nikolaus wachsmann, open letters weekly 2015
March 28, 2015

Book Review: Ravensbruck

March 28, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In 1939 the Nazis established their only concentration camp specifically for women; a comprehensive new book tells the history of Ravensbruck

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history, March 2015, nazi germany, open letters weekly 2015, ravensbruck
November 20, 2014

Book Review: Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination

November 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

It's well known that Hitler looked to Mussolini's success in Italy as a model for his own fascism, but a fascinating new book details the lesser-known fact that Hitler had another model as well - an earlier and more exotic one.

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ataturk in the nazi imagination, history, nazi germany, November 2014, open letters weekly, stefan ihrig
April 08, 2013

Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich

April 08, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The authoritative new biography - now in an enormous paperback - of the architect of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution"

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April 2013, biography, heinrich himmler, nazi germany, open letters weekly, peter longerich
July 14, 2012

Book Review: The Taste of War

July 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new book looks at the foremost weapon in war's arsenal: food.

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July 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
food, food writing, July 2012, lizzie collingham, nazi germany, rationing, the taste of war, Winston Churchill, world war two, WWII
June 17, 2012

Book Review: Hitler's Berlin

June 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Now in English: a richly researched and deeply moving history of the capital of the Third Reich.

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Adolf Hitler, berlin, german history, hitler's berlin, June 2012, nazi germany, stewart spenser, thomas friedrich
February 11, 2012

Classics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?

February 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.

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February 2012, heinrich boll, leila vennewitz, Melville House, memoir, nazi germany, what's to become of the boy
July 01, 2011

Edward the Last

July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.

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"Bertie" The Duke of York, A Year With The Windsors, Berchtesgaden, Black Death, Charles Bedaux, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Edward III, Edward IV, Edward Longshanks, Edward V, Edward VIII, Elizabeth Woodeville, first world war, Fort Belvedere, Frances Donaldson, George v, henry viii, History review, Hitler, Hundred Years War, July 2011, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Lloyd George, Metropolitan Opera, Miguel Primo de Rivera, nazi germany, Nazi sympathies, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Operation Sea Lion, Oxford, Prince of Wales, Princes in the Tower, Ricardo de Espirto Santo, Stanley Baldwin, Steve Donoghue, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Wehrmacht, Windsor Great Park
June 07, 2011

Book Review: Exorcising Hitler

June 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new history examines the problems the Allies faced when they took on the job of occupying a defeated Germany in 1945.

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exorcising hitler, frederick taylor, history, June 2011, nazi germany
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