France is asking itself what it could have done, faced with total defeat by Hitler.” Read more... The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Duff Cooper Prize Susan Brigden, Historian Buy now Listen now Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 🏆 Winner of the 2023 Booker Prize Read expert ...
It seems that authors and publishers, writing about World War II, appear to be stuck on titles...By SilbergeldDavid L. L
It’s an account of how the roads captured people’s imagination, from writers like Goethe to dictators like Hitler.” Read more... Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2024 Sophie Roell, Journalist Buy now The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the...
Under New Jersey Law, when riding a bike you are not allowed to ride with your feet off the pedals or with both hands removed from the handlebars. You also can't practice any tricks or fancy driving in a street and only one or two people (depending on the amount of seats) are ...
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Young (1914–2012) would later marry New York Times Moscow correspondent Harrison Salisbury, and the two would embark on lengthy journeys throughout Asia, including a grueling 7,000-mile journey retracing the route of The Long March that Charlotte recounted in one of her seven travel books. ...
Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish, and Czech archival sources,Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler(Oxford UP, 2023) tells the story of Germany and its rearmament in the 1920s and 1930s; its relations with foreign governments and ...
Lahr has written a number of stage adaptions (he won a Tony award in 2002, the first drama critic to do so) as well as nearly twenty books, including a 2017 biography of his father, Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr. DRAMATIC DUO…John Lahr with his father, Bert...
” She also wrote several penetrating contributions toThe New Yorker’s “Profile” series, notably those onAdolf Hitler,Thomas Mann,Edith Wharton,Jean Cocteau,André Gide, Picasso,Albert Camus,Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette,Igor Stravinsky,Josephine Baker,Maurice Ravel,Edith Piaf, andElsa Maxwell. Those...
Wanda’s mother is Black; her father the son of one of Hitler’s rocket scientists, an Air Force colonel working on the space program who used to beat Wanda with a steel ruler when she let slip that her mother was neither white nor dead. The ambiguity of identity is a major theme in...