[I’m just guessing that the British Ambassador in Moscow in 1943 wasn’t educated at the local poor school.] You shouldn’t laugh, but you probably will.
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History
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Another Brick
Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but did David Hasselhoff bring down the Berlin Wall?
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But They Said…
Going to war on bad intelligence: a short history.
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German Intelligence vs. The Irish
There was an excellent spoof play on the strange comedy show Radio Nine, earlier this week. In it, a bunch of actors put on period Irish accents to do an historical drama “glorifying organized crime”—a tiny, sharp pin in the romantic bubble of Republican myth (and I’m supposed to be a Catholic). Ignore the misleading […]
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Lest We Forget
Little Green Footballs annoys me. It’s a ‘Blog which does the useful service of accumulating various racist rantings from Islamic extremists. And it’s a ‘Blog that does itself a disservice with its own racist rants. While dropping by today to disapprove, I picked up a link there to a letter in the Telegraph that every […]
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Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates is to Saving Private Ryan as Battlestar Galactica was to Star Wars. Enemy at the Gates does several big-budget things well. It terrifies us with its depiction of a Stuka attack on troop carriers. It renders the grim vistas of the destruction of Stalingrad so spookily you’d feel sad just looking […]
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Historical Perspective
Also earlier this week, when I asked them, Claire and Judith Wrubel Levy kindly recommended books on the American Civil War to me. Claire suggested Eric Foner's Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men and Judith suggested James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. An article from the mostly-subscription FT site, summarized in the Business Standard, argues […]
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