Recent Book Reviews

  • ‘Wait and See’. Review of Olivier Wiewiorka, The French Resistance (Harvard UP, April 2016), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 38, no. 21, 5 November 2016, pp. 19-21.
  • Review of Norman Ohler, ‘Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany’ (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2016), in The Guardian, review section, 19 November 2016.
  • ‘Witnesses for the Prosecution’. Review of Lawrence Rees, The Holocaust: A New History (Viking Penguin, 2017), in The New Statesman, 13-19 January 2017, pp. 42-43.
  • Review of Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2017), in The Guardian, review section, 28 January 2017, p. 7.
  • ‘A Warning from History’. Review of Volker Ullrich, Ascent: 1889-1939 (Knopf, New York, 2016), in The Nation, 28 February 2017.
  • Review of Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Bodley Head, 2017), in The Guardian, review section, 12 March 2017, p. 8.
  • ‘The Monk Who Shook the World’. Review of Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther (Random House, 2017) in The Wall Street Journal, 1-2 April, 2017, pp. C5-C6.
  • ‘Unending History’. Review of Shlomo Sand, Twilight of History (Verso, 2017), in The Times Literary Supplement, 59-60, 23 June 2017, pp. 3-5.
  • ‘Peace time’. Review of Robert Harris, Munich (Hutchinson, London, 2017) in The Times Literary Supplement, 5973 (22 September, 2017), p. 22.
  • ‘My Opposition’ review of Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition. The Diary of Friedrich Kellner. A German Against the Third Reich (ed. and transl. Robert Scott Kellner, Cambridge University Press, 2017), in The Guardian Saturday Review, 13 January 2018, p. 6.
  • ‘Men He Could Trust’. Review of Daniel Siemens, A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts (Yale University Press, 2017), in London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 4, 22 February 2018, pp. 37-39.
  • ‘Rule by Fear’. Review of Thomas Childers, The Third Reich. A History of Nazi Germany (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2018), in The Nation, 26 February 2018, pp. 27-30.
  • ‘The View from Whitehall’. Review of David Cannadine, Victorious Century. Britain 1800-1906 (Penguin, 2018), in The Nation, 21 May 2018.
  • ‘Fascism and the Road to Unfreedom review – the warning from the 1930s’. Review of Madeleine Albright, Fascism: A Warning (Collins, 2018) and Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom (Bodley Head, 2018) in The Guardian review section, 21 July 2018.
  • ‘Nuts about the Occult’ Review of Eric Kurlander, Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Yale UP, 2017), in London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 5 (2 August 2018), pp. 37-38.
  • ‘A Community of Defeat: German Life in the 20th Century’. Review of Konrad H. Jarausch, Broken Lives. How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century (Princeton University Press, 2018), in The Nation, 4 October 2018.
  • ‘History for middle England’. Review of Peter Hitchens, The Phoney Victory: The World War II Delusion (IB Tauris, 2018), in New Statesman, 28 September-4 October 2018, pp. 34-5.
  • ‘Scars on the Memory’. Review of Jörn Leonhard, Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War (Harvard University Press, 2018), in Times Literary Supplement, 9 November 2018, pp. 3-5.
  • ‘Horrible History’. Review of Jacob Rees-Mogg, The Victorians: Twelve Titans Who Forged Britain (WH Allen, May2019), in New Statesman, 24-30 May 2019, 38-41.
  • ‘Whiter Washing’. Review of Volker Berghahn, Journalists Between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany (Princeton UP, 2019), in London Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 11 (6 June 2019), pp. 19-20.
  • Review of Florian Huber, Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself (Penguin, 2019), in The Guardian, 22 June 2019, review section.
  • ‘Movement of the People’. Review of Peter Gatrell, The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present ((Penguin/Allen Lane, 2019), in BBC History Magazine August 2019, p. 74.
  • ‘The Demented Dalek’. Review of Owen Bennett, Michael Gove: A Man in a Hurry (Biteback, 2019), in London Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 17 (12 September 2019), pp. 15-18.
  • ‘Was Hitler obsessed with destroying capitalism, and what did he control? Two new books fall into old traps’. The Guardian, review section, 28 September 2019, pp. 18-19 (full version is online at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/27/hitler-only-the-world-was-enough-and-hitler-a-life-review