World War II – Couldn't I Just Tell You

Review: Journey Into Fear – Eric Ambler

Posted on 09/12/2024 by Speesh in Crime Fiction, Fiction, Spy Fiction, The Second World War

Is that all there is?

Review: Hitlers Willing Executioners – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Posted on 22/11/2024 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

Astonishing, disturbing, and riveting...the fruit of phenomenal scholarship and absolute integrity - Simon Schama

Review: Final Solution – David Cesarani

Posted on 25/12/202325/12/2023 by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The First World War, The Holocaust

The final word

Review: The SS Dirlewanger Brigade – Christian Ingrao

Posted on 25/12/2023 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The Holocaust

Smoke and mirrors

Review: Ordinary Men – Christopher R. Browning

Posted on 20/08/202320/08/2023 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, The Eastern Front

Gewöhnliche Männer

Review: Eichmann Before Jerusalem – Bettina Stangenth

Posted on 19/11/202219/11/2022 by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

"Cynicism, inhumanity and moral self-deception"