Posts Tagged with ‘Books:History’
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A Very Short Introduction to Fascism
07 Apr 2017The word fascist lost its adhesion to two particular strains of political movements decades ago and became a general term…
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Anatomy of Fascism
15 Mar 2017The bibliographic essay at the end of Robert O Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism is some 27 pages long. At about…
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The Populist Explosion by John Judis
06 Mar 2017The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the…
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
02 Feb 2017It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of…
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Touring Italy In Books
23 Sep 2016Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction,…
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War….
02 Feb 2016The civil war in Spain, 1936-1939, was the dark warning to the world of the war to follow, in almost every…
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Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain’s Memoir of WW I
17 Jul 2015Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, recently brought to view by the movie of the same name, unaccountably escaped my decades long reading…
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Vera Brittain: Not only the Movie, the Book
06 Jul 2015Military historian, Simon Jones, says Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, upon which the new movie is based, is one…
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The Pope and Mussolini
30 Apr 2015Reading David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini:The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe will be a…
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Lawrence In Arabia — the Southern Reaches of WW I
20 Nov 2014As World War I came to its bloody close in the fall of 1918 the British public had to be…
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How Wars Begin
05 Nov 2014Among his many popular, controversial and and voluminous texts on European history, British historian A. J. P. Taylor produced one…
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The Guns of August — 100 Years Ago
23 Aug 2014It is a mark of Barbara Tuchman’s power as a writer that her ground breaking narrative history of the first month…
