The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
Category: History
Review: The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting. Wannsee and The Final Solution – Mark Roseman
On 20 January 1942 the most murderous meeting in history took place
Review: The Kingdom of Rus’ – Christian Raffensperger
Not for the fainthearied
Review: Viking Britain. An Exploration – Thomas Williams
Lindisfarne wasn't the start of the Viking Age
Review: Eaters of The Dead – Michael Crichton
Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel "Eaters of the Dead," "The 13th Warrior" is an exciting and unforgettable adventure thriller.
Review: Masters of Death. The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust – Richard Rhodes
These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.
Review: North Men (The Viking Saga 793 – 1241) – John Haywood
They came, they saw, they pillaged
Review: Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts – Daniel K. Richter
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there
Review: The Far Traveller: Voyages of a Viking Woman – Nancy Marie Brown
Wonderful book
Review: Zealot. The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth – Reza Aslan
'Aslan's riveting biography ... synthesises Scripture and scholarship to create an original account' The New Yorker
