From the November 2023 Issue Requiems for the Fallen Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance By Jeremy Eichler LR
From the June 2018 Issue Their Struggle Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century By Konrad H Jarausch LR
From the March 2015 Issue The Dachau Indictment Hitler’s First Victims and One Man’s Race for Justice By Timothy W Ryback LR
From the May 2014 Issue To the Victor, the Spoils The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916–1931 By Adam Tooze LR
From the September 2012 Issue Buddenbrooks on the Ruhr Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm By Harold James LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: