Surviving forced labour in wartime Berlin
Ian Buruma’s account of his father’s years in a German factory accounts department is moving but limited in scope
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Richard J Evans
Richard J Evans is regius professor emeritus of history at the University of Cambridge. His books include Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich (Allen Lane).
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Johnson leaves behind a constitution in tatters, a culture at war with itself, and a country that has become…
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How nostalgia fuels the culture wars
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New works by the journalists Tina Brown and Robert Hardman question whether the monarchy can survive without radical reform.
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Why Putin’s war in Ukraine turned into a military disaster
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Vladimir Putin’s war of delusions
The Russian president is a prisoner of his own deadly misconceptions – and the echoes of Hitler are hard…
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Why Neville Chamberlain will forever be discredited by his policy of appeasement
A new Netflix film, based on Robert Harris’s novel, attempts to rehabilitate the former prime minister – but his…
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