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In this video, I profile some of the best war books ever written. Military history is a fascinating topic. You might be interested in the best books about th...
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Each month, the OUP History Book Club hosts live, thought-provoking conversations between Oxford University Press authors about a selected book.This month, w...
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War Books Podcast - by A.J. Woodhams. Authors interviewed about their newest releases in war writing, military history, war studies, current events, politics, and more. Both nonfiction and...
Aug 24, 2021 · By Sean McMeekin. Basic Books, 2021, 864 pp. Buy the book. Reviewed by Lawrence D. Freedman. September/October 2021 Published on August 24, 2021. Instead of writing yet another history of World War II centered on Adolf Hitler, McMeekin takes a more original approach, focusing on Joseph Stalin.
Oct 21, 2024 · War, Woodward’s new book on the inner workings of the Biden White House, is a worthy second draft, although his story should perhaps have been better entitled Wars with an s. When he started writing, the Ukraine war was the dominant issue, but the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel has grabbed more headlines since.
Sep 10, 2021 · Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II, by Sean McMeekin, Basic Books, New York, 2021, $40. Current histories seldom portray World War II as a battle wholly between good and evil, and Russian history specialist McMeekin rocks no boats by emphasizing that Joseph Stalin’s propensity for evil took no back seat to Adolf Hitler’s.
Must-reads of 2021 picked by historians and scholars in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. December 23, 2021 Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
