"Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945" by Max Hastings offers a detailed narrative of the war's final months, recounting the German military's resilience and the human suffering endured by soldiers and civilians alike. Hastings critiques military strategies and presents a sobering portrayal of the conflict's devastating consequences, emphasizing moral complexities amidst warfare.
Tag: Russia
Review: The Bear And The Dragon – Tom Clancy
A whole new level of enjoyable nonsense
Review: The Eighth Sister – Robert Dugoni
A pulse-pounding thriller of espionage, spy games.
Review: Killing Eve Codename Villanelle – Luke Jennings
It's not Red Sparrow. No.
Review: Palace of Treason – Jason Matthews
There's a rat in me kitchen
Review: Stalingrad – Antony Beevor
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
Review: Red Sparrow – Jason Matthews
Give that man an atlas!
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: A Divided Spy – Charles Cumming
"The threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack looms over Britain."
Europe in 1814
This time, we've moved forward to 1815 in the Rand McNally World Atlas Premier Collection, still published in 1946. The copy accompanying the map, goes like this: The Congress of Vienna in 1815 re-fashioned the map of Europe after the downfall of Napoleon. England and France in the west; Austria and Russia in the east; … Continue reading Europe in 1814
