By mid-1940, Hitler’s Germany appeared to be unstoppable by mid-1940. It had already... read more
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On December 8, 1941, the day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. The Senate... read more

Who am I?
Award-winning journalist and historian Andrew Nagorski was born in Scotland to Polish parents, moved to the United States as an infant, and has rarely stopped moving since. During... read more

THE GALLERY OF MIRACLES AND MADNESS
Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler’s War on Art
By Charlie English. 336 pp. Random House, 2021. $28.
In the aftermath of World War I, the world... read more

By Andrew Nagorski
Andrew Nagorski is the author, most recently, of “1941: The Year Germany Lost the War.”
Benito Mussolini took power in Italy in late 1922, making him Europe’s... read more

Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
By Roger Moorhouse. 432 pp.
Basic Books, 2020. $32.
WHEN HITLER LAUNCHED HIS ATTACK on Poland on September 1, 1939, igniting World... read more