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Review: The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz – Denis Avey with Rob Broomby

Posted on 27/09/2026 by Speesh in Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust

Exceptional and very moving

Three people walking over rubble in heavily damaged city street with smoking ruins

Review: Endgame 1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby

Posted on 20/09/202620/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front

The massive Soviet campaigns, rather than just the Western Allies' D-Day landings, ultimately destroyed Nazism and allowed Stalin to dictate the post-war order

Long narrow corridor with four closed wooden prison cell doors on one side and small barred windows near the ceiling on the other side

Review: Auschwitz A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Miklos Nyiszli

Posted on 19/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Second World War, Non Fiction, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Poland

'The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available' - The New York Review of Books

Review: The Capture And Trial Of Adolf Eichmann – Charles River Editors

Posted on 17/09/202619/09/2026 by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, History, Israel, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

The History of Israel’s Abduction and Execution of the Holocaust’s Architect

Review: All You Need Is Kill – Hiroshi Sakurazaka / Takeshi Obata

Posted on 13/09/202619/09/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Graphic Novel, Science Fiction

Manga. Not exactly something I'm looking forward to doing again any time soon

African American family in 19th century clothing sitting quietly on wooden benches outside a rustic cabin

Review: Underground Airlines – Ben H. Winters

Posted on 12/09/202619/09/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller

No fly zone

Review: The Vinland Sagas – Keneva Kunz, Gisli Sigurdsson

Posted on 11/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Non Fiction, The Americas, Vikings

The Icelandic Sagas about the first documented voyages across the North Atlantic

Mediterranean coastal town with boats docked at harbor, colorful buildings, beach with umbrellas, and sunset over sea

Review: Agent In Place – Helen MacInnes

Posted on 11/09/202611/09/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Spy Fiction, Thriller

"Agent in Place" by Helen MacInnes is a Cold War thriller about a well-meaning spy whose leak ignites an international crisis, blending procedural realism with themes of idealism and espionage consequences.