History

Review: Fall And Rise. The Story Of 9/11 – Mitchell Zuckoff

Posted on 01/07/2020 by Speesh in History, Modern Terrorism, Non Fiction

11/9

Review: Hell Before Their Very Eyes – John C. McManus

Posted on 14/06/202014/06/2020 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

Ohrdruf. Buchenwald. Dachau.

Review: Forged – Brad D. Ehrlman

Posted on 11/06/2020 by Speesh in Biblical History, History, Non Fiction

Jesus must be spinning in his grave!

Review: Why? Explaining The Holocaust – Peter Hayes

Posted on 09/06/2020 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of why such carnage erupted still eludes people

Review: James The Brother of Jesus – Robert H. Eisenman

Posted on 21/03/202021/03/2020 by Speesh in Biblical History, History, Non Fiction, The Holocaust

Not your usual 'what if...' novel

Review: Breakout At Stalingrad – Heinrich Gerlach

Posted on 31/01/202031/01/2020 by Speesh in Fiction, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Second World War

Written by one who was actually there

Review: Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel’s Deadly Response – Aaron J. Klein

Posted on 28/01/202021/03/2020 by Speesh in History, Modern Terrorism, Non Fiction

Not your usual 'what if...' novel

Review: Beyond The Northlands. Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas – Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

Posted on 05/01/202010/01/2020 by Speesh in History, Non Fiction, The Rus, Vikings

Not your usual 'what if...' novel

Review: Auschwitz A History – Sybille Steinbacher

Posted on 06/10/201910/01/2020 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

They knew

Review: Eichmann In My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler’s Chief Executioner – Peter Z. Malkin

Posted on 03/07/201905/01/2020 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands “remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity” (New York Newsday).