By mid-1940, Hitler’s Germany appeared to be unstoppable by mid-1940. It had already... read more
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May 05, 2022
March 16, 2022
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
October 18, 2021
I recently shared my favorite books on the view from London in 1941 on a new website called Shepherd. I... read more
October 01, 2021
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
December 31, 2020
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
October 01, 2020
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