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...Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark Allen Lane, £35, 896 pages Munro Price is emeritus professor of history at Bradford university....
...Allen made up Schmeed to poke fun at people complicit with fascism who were claiming, a generation after the second world war, that they had no idea of the real nature of the Third Reich....
...In 2021 she published Blood and Iron, a history of the Second Reich, to much acclaim....
...A course, the author adds, that might well have seen Britain and Europe long under the Reich’s jackboot....
...Eight Days in May: How Germany’s War Ended by Volker Ullrich Allen Lane, £25, 336 pages Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jähner WH Allen, £20, 382 pages Giles MacDonogh...
...“I was looking at that idea of American tailoring,” he said, “what was worn by Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg.”...
...Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955by Harald Jähner, translated by Shaun Whiteside, WH Allen £20/Knopf $27 A prizewinning book in Germany, where it appeared in 2019, Aftermath captures...
...Other readables Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike, asks Robert Reich. Sarah O’Connor explains why quitting your job is good for the economy....
...The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination, by Richard J Evans, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 288 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe commentator Join our online book group on Facebook...
...The book touches on the crisis of conscience when rural Germans learnt the true nature of the crimes committed by the Reich....
...Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane, RRP£30/University of Chicago Press, RRP$35 Roderick Beaton’s impressive book sets Greece’s recent troubles in the context of recurrent...
...If you are wondering why, turn to Reich and Giridharadas....
...The Order of Time , by Carlo Rovelli, Allen Lane, RRP£12.99/Riverhead Books, RRP$20 Italian physicist Rovelli follows up his bestselling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics with a deep — and remarkably readable...
...@laylimay Photographs: Brian Allen/Voice of America; Victoria and Albert Museum, London...
...Even more prevalent was methamphetamine (“crystal meth”), as the German novelist Norman Ohler shows in Blitzed, his history of drugs in the Third Reich....
...Jonathan Mathew, Stylianos Contogoulas, Jay Merchant, Alex Pabon and Ryan Reich are accused of conspiring with others at the British bank to manipulate US dollar Libor — the benchmark interbank lending rate...
...some of the most high-powered investors in the world, including the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Citigroup, hedge fund managers Steven Cohen and George Soros and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen...
...Once in power, the Third Reich would swiftly propel the continent into a “bottomless pit of inhumanity”....
...Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman were the same team that had been praised for the endearing teen pregnancy story Juno (2007) but Young Adult was altogether less adorable....
...Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty, Canongate, RRP£12.99 / WWNorton, RRP$24.95, 272 pages The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life, by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski, Allen...
...Was Germany set on a Sonderweg — a special path — from its late unification as a Second Reich under Prussia in 1871 to the disaster of Hitler’s Third Reich in 1933?...
...Allen Gilmer, Drillinginfo’s chief executive, said: “Because production from shale wells comes on fast and drops off fast, their economics are more exposed to short-term prices.”...
...Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria Hungary at War, 1914-1918, by Alexander Watson, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 816 pages William Mulligan is a lecturer at University College Dublin and author of ‘The Great War...
...$29.95, 408 pages Nation of Devils: Democratic Leadership and the Problem of Obedience, by Stein Ringen, Yale, RRP£20/$35, 264 pages The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy, by Philip Coggan, Allen...
...When news reached them about the Third Reich’s atrocities, the couple committed suicide. Seksik’s bestselling novel is a tender and tragic dramatisation of Zweig’s final months....
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