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Tag: The Second World War

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

Tagged Auschwitz, Auschwitz III, Denis Avey, The Holocaust, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz, The Second World WarLeave a comment
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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

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

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

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

Tagged Auschwitz, Auschwitz A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, Miklos Nyiszli, Penguin Classics, The Holocaust, The Second World WarLeave a comment

Review: Black Earth – Timothy Snyder

Posted on 20/04/202414/02/2026 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, Conflict, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

"Wholly readable and utterly persuasive" - Observor

Tagged auschwitz-birkenau, Black Earth, Penguin Random House, The Holocaust, The Second World War, Timothy Snyder, Vintage BooksLeave a comment

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

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Review: Red Icon – Sam Eastland

Posted on 25/07/2019 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, The Soviet Union, World War II Germany

A master at work

Tagged Inspector Pekkala, Red Icon, Sam Eastland, Stalin, The Second World War, The Soviet UnionLeave a comment

Review: SS-GB – Len Deighton

Posted on 09/09/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War

Leonardo da Deighton.

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Tagged Granada Publishing, Len Deighton, Panther Books, Scotland Yard, The Second World War, ThrillerLeave a comment

Review: Silesian Station – David Downing

Posted on 27/08/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Between The Wars, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War, Spy

It's what they aren't, that makes them what they are.

Tagged David Downing, Douglas Reeman, John Russell, Len Deighton, Old Street Publishing, Silesian Station, The Second World WarLeave a comment

Review: Zoo Station – David Downing

Posted on 04/06/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War, Spy

"A extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany on the eve of war", says CJ Sansom author of 'Winter in Madrid'. He's not wrong.

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Tagged Berlin, David Downing, Nazi Germany, Old Street Publishing, Philip Kerr, Pre-War Germany, Robert Harris, The Second World WarLeave a comment

Review: If The Dead Rise Not – Philip Kerr

Posted on 17/03/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Fiction, Second World War

An enjoyably glimpse at life in Berlin just before the Second world War.

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Tagged Bernie Gunther, Coming Of The Third Reich, If The Dead Rise Not, Nazi Germany, Philip Kerr, Quercus Books, The Second World WarLeave a comment

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