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
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June 01, 2020
Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
By David Stahel. 545 pp.
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2019. $35.
The Battle of Moscow, which officially... read more
April 02, 2020
Nazi doctrine pigeonholed them as obedient mothers and wives, but a cadre of strong female supporters aided the rise of the Führer and some of his most trusted men. ... read more
December 29, 2019
On May 14, 1938, after finishing a night of drinking by downing a bottle of whiskey, the Tokyo-based Soviet spy Richard Sorge mounted his motorcycle and, as always, roared through the city’s... read more
December 02, 2019
„Nareszcie będziemy traktowani jak ludzie” – cieszyli się mieszkańcy okupowanych terenów wschodniej Polski. Niemieckie wojska, które sforsowały granicę 22 czerwca 1941 roku witano kwiatami... read more
November 09, 2019
Most people know that the storming of the Bastille triggered the French Revolution, the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered World War I, and the fall of the Berlin... read more
September 01, 2019
On this 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, which launched World War II, I find myself thinking as much about my father,... read more
August 30, 2019
Andrew Nagorski is a former Newsweek foreign correspondent and editor, whose postings included Hong Kong, Warsaw and Moscow. He is the author of 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War.
... read moreAugust 01, 2019
When General Raymond E. Lee, the former U.S. military attaché in wartime London, died in 1958 at age 72, his obituary in the New York Times pointed out that no one “was ever more popular... read more
July 21, 2019
Before America’s entry into WWII, the country was divided on the question of intervention, but not for want of trying on the part of FDR and the nation’s foreign correspondents.... read more