Richard Gott
Articles by Richard Gott
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Books
Twin demons
- 12 July 2004
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
Richard Overy Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 849pp, £25
ISBN 071399309X
Books
A paean to peace
- 10 May 2004
The Unconquerable World: power, non-violence, and the will of the people
Jonathan Schell Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 435pp, £20
ISBN 0713997664
Books
A moral stain
- 23 February 2004
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Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945
Frederick Taylor Bloomsbury, 544pp, £20
ISBN 0060006765
World Affairs
Larger than life. Fidel Castro is a liberal utopian of the 19th century rather than a 20th-century totalitarian. He has moved with the times and, thanks to him, Cuba has been spared the neo-liberal chaos that engulfed the former Soviet bloc
- 09 February 2004
The Real Fidel Castro
Leycester Coltman Yale University Press, 335pp, £25
ISBN 0300101880
Fidel Castro: a biography
Volker Skierka (translated by Patrick Camiller) Polity Press, 440pp, £25
Books
Nobel beginnings
- 24 November 2003
Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel GarcIa Marquez. Translated by Edith Grossman Jonathan Cape, 484pp, £18.99
ISBN 0224072781
Books
The fatal legacy. Most books and television programmes about Hitler reflect a taste for pornography, not a thirst for knowledge. What we really need is a history written with an appreciation of today's Germany rather than a jaundiced recollection of its past, argues Richard Gott
- 10 November 2003
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J Evans Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 622pp, £25
ISBN 071399648X
World Affairs
Legacy of terror. The 11 September 2003 marked 30 years since Pinochet's coup. Far from representing "the corruption of American values", the US involvement in Chile is typical of its foreign policy, especially in Latin America, writes Richard Gott
- 15 September 2003
The Pinochet File: a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability
Peter Kornbluh The New Press, 548pp, £18.95
ISBN 1565845862
Books
A fogey writes
- 24 February 2003
Hitler and Churchill: secrets of leadership
Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 202pp, £18.99
ISBN 0297843303
Ideas
A talent to provoke. Richard Gott grapples with a revisionist's defence of empire
- 27 January 2003
Empire: how Britain made the modern world
Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 392pp, £25
ISBN 0713996153
Arts & Culture
Art of the state
- 20 January 2003
Today's government has exchanged visual propaganda for verbal spin. But the political poster will survive as an evocative art form long after the passions that created it have faded
