Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell came to fight in Spain convinced that fascism was the great enemy at that historical moment (and convinced that what he was fighting in Spain was fascism). He recounts his experiences in a...
History, Contemporary
Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature
An interesting and gripping account of the difficulties faced by many Central European intellectuals, Jews, and opponents in escaping Nazism. Many fled at the beginning, with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933...
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement
In The Spirit of the Oxford Movement, Christopher Dawson offers a clear and engaging look at the rise of the Oxford Movement, a religious phenomenon that sought to revitalize the Church of England during a...
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings is a distinguished journalist and historian of 20th-century conflicts, mostly of World War II.
This is his first book on World War I. It deals with the months from the beginning of the...
The Director
Kehlmann reconstructs the professional life of the Austrian film director G. W. Pabst, one of the key figures of silent cinema who later successfully adapted to sound film. A contemporary and friend of the...
Industry of lies
Yemini, a Jewish journalist, is concerned about the handling of news in media outlets that are usually hostile to Israel, which is accused of being genocidal and imperialist. He repeatedly questions the...
The Battle for Spain
Antony Beevor, a former student of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and a former officer of the 11th Hussars in the British Army, published in 1982 a landmark book on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939...
Wittgenstein: A Family in Letters
The Wittgenstein family was one of the most well-known and powerful in early 20th-century Austria. The industrialist Karl Wittgenstein and his wife Leopoldine Kalmus had nine children, four of whom reached...
Europe at War: 1939-1945
The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: on land, at sea, and in the air, the Allies and the Nazis fought. The outcome of the war is best described as ambiguous.
Second World War
The Second World War was the most destructive human conflict in history. Forty million people die the 2174 days from Germany attack on Poland in September 1939 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945.