Book Reviews

Recent Book Reviews

W. Thönnessen, The Emancipation of Women. The Women’s Movement in German Social Democracy 1863-1933

(London, 1973), in International Labor and Working Class History No. 8 (November 1975), pp. 43-5.

Jill Stephenson, Women in Nazi Society

(London, 1975) in History, Vol. 62, No. 204 (February 1977) pp. 166-7.

R. Forster and O. Ranum (eds.), Family and Society. Selections from the Annales

(Baltimore, 1976) in Journal of European Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (September 1977), pp. 224-6.

‘Auch Deutschland hatte seine Suffragetten’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,

No. 86, 27 April, 1978, p. 11. Review of Lida Gustava Heymann, in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Jur. Anita Augspurg, Erlebtes-Erschautes. Deutsche Frauen kämpfen fur Freiheit, Recht und Frieden 1850-1940 (Meisenheim am Glan, 1977).

Rosa Leviné-Meyer, Inside German Communism. Memoirs of Party Life in the Weimar Republic

(London, 1977 and Larissa Reissner, Hamburg at the Barricades and other Writings on Weimar Germany (London, 1977), in Journal of European Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (June, 1978), pp. 150-4.

Keith Bullivant (ed.), Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic

(Manchester, 1977) in Journal of European Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 4 (December, 1978), pp. 296-7.

Sheila Lewenhak, Women and Trade Unions: An Outline History of Women in the British Trade Union Movement

(New York, 1977), in The Historian, Vol. XLI, No.2 (February, 1979).

Jürgen Kocka (ed.), Theorien in der Praxis des Historikers

(Göttingen, 1977) and R. Rürup (ed.), Historische Sozialwissenschaft (Gottingen, 1977) in Social History, Vol. 4, No. 2 (May, 1979).

‘Law and Order in West Germany: the view from the novelist’s desk and the lawyer’s pulpit’

Association for the Study of German Politics Newsletter, (June, 1979) pp. 8-12.

Erhard Lucas, Arbeiterradikalismus: Zwei Formen von Radikalismus in der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung

(Frankfurt, 1976) in History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist Historians Issue 7 (1979), pp. 200-203 (reprinted in Proletarians and Politics November 1990)

Karlbernhard Jasper, Der Urbanisierungsprozess dargestellt am Beispiel der Stadt Köln

(Cologne, 1978) in Economic History Review Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (June, 1979), p.441.

Peter Laslett, Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, Essays in Historical Sociology

(Cambridge, 1977) in Journal of European Studies, Vol. IX No. 3 (September, 1979), pp. 233-4.

Helmut Bleiber (ed.), Bourgeoisie und bürgerliche Umwälzung in Deutschland 1789-1871

(East Berlin, 1977) in Social History, Vol. 4, No. 3 (October, 1979), pp. 535-40.

Dirk Blasius, Kriminalität und Alltag. Zur Konfliktgeschichte des Alltagslebens im 19 Jahrhundert

(Göttingen, 1978 in Social History, Vol. 4, No. 3 (October, 1979), p. 565.

Marion Kaplan, The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany

(Westport, Conn., 1979) in American Historical Review, Vol. 85, No. 2 (April, 1980), pp. 417-8).

Rosemarie Leuschen-Seppel, Sozialdemokratie und Antisemitismus im Kaiserreich

(Bonn, 1978), in Social History, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 330-333.

Eda Sagarra, A Social History of Germany 1648-1914

(London, 1977) in Journal of European Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (June, 1980), pp. 150-151.

Alain Corbin, Les filles de noce

(Paris, 1978), in Social History, Vol. 5, No. 3 (October, 1980), pp. 477-80

James J Sheehan, German Liberalism in the 19th Century

(Chicago, 1978), in Social History, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January, 1981), pp. 126-131.

Willaim H Maehl, Germany in Western Civilisation

(Alabama, 1979), in Journal of European Studies, Vol. 11, Part 2 (June, 1981), No. 42, pp. 151-2.

Alex Hall, Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914

in Journal of European Studies, Vol. 11, Part 2 (June, 1981), No. 42, pp. 152-4.

Renate Pore, A Conflict of Interest. Women in German Social Democracy. 1919-1933

(Westport, Connecticut, 1981), in American Historical Review Vol. 87 (1982), No.6, pp. 1412.

James F. McMillan, Housewife or Harlot. The Place of Women in French Society 1870-1940

(Brighton, 1981), in Social History, Vol. 8/2, (May, 1983), p. 264.

Isobel V. Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II 1888-1918

(Cambridge U.P., 1982), in History Vol. 68 (June, 1983), pp. 361-2, (reprinted in Rethinking German History, October, 1987).

Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Historische Sozialwissenschaft und Geschichtsschreibung

(Göttingen, 1980), in English Historical Review Vol. XCVIII (1983), pp. 941-2.

Hartmut Kaelble, Soziale Mobilität und Chancengleichheit im 19 und 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 1983) and Industrialisierung und Soziale Ungleichheit (Göttingen, 1983)

in Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, No. 15 (Spring, 1984), pp. 6-9.

Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times

(London, 1983) in Hard Times: Zeitschrift der Neuen Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft, No. 2 (April, 1984), pp. 75-6.

Roger Fletcher, Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1897-1914

(Allen and Unwin, London, 1984) in Social History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May, 1985), pp. 262-3.

Florian Tennstedt, Vom Proleten zum Industriearbeiter: Arbeiterbewegung und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland 1800 bis 1914

(Bund Verlag, Cologne, 1983), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 57, No.2 (June, 1985), pp. 378-9.

Ursula Büttner, Hamburg in der Staats-und Wirtschaftskrise 1928-31

(Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg, 1982), in English Historical Review, No. 397 (Oct. 1985) pp. 936-8.

R. Bridenthal, A. Grossman, M. Kaplan (eds.), When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany

(Monthly Review Press, New York, 1984) in American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 4 (October 1985), pp. 963-4.

Hagen Schulze, Weimar: Deutschland, 1917-1933

(Severin and Siedler, Berlin, 1983), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 5, (March, 1986), No.1, pp. 363-6.

Conan Fischer, Stormtroopers. A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis, 1929-35

(Allen and Unwin, London, 1983), in English Historical Review, Vol. 101 (1986), No. 399, pp. 551-2.

Hans-Ulrich Wehler, The German Empire, 1871-1918

(Berg Publishers, Leamington Spa, 1985), in German History, No. 3 (Spring, 1986), pp. 89-92.

Heinrich August Winkler, Von der Revolution zur Stabilisierung: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik, 1918 bis 1924

(Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger, Bonn, 1984), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 58, (June, 1986), No. 2, pp. 572-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

Stanley Suval, Electoral Politics in Wilhelmine Germany

(University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1985), in American Historical Review, Vol. 91 (June 1986) No. 3, pp. 686.

Nicholas Bullock and James Read, The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840-1914

(Cambridge, 1985), in European History Quarterly Vol. 16 (October 1986), No. 4, pp. 514-6.

Susan G. Bell and Karen M. Offen (eds.), Women, the Family and Freedom. A Debate in Documents Vol. 1, 1750-1880; Vol. II, 1880-1950

(Stanford U.P., 1983) in English Historical Review, Vol. CI, No. 401, (October 1986), pp. 1020-22

Jacques R. Pauwels, Women, Nazis and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich 1933-1945

(Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1984), in The Historian, Vol. XLVIII, (1986), pp. 453-4.

James S. Roberts, Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Germany

(Allen and Unwin, London, 1984), in English Historical Review, Vol. CII, No. 402 (Jan. 1987), pp. 248-9.

Alfred G. Meyer, The Feminism and Socialism of Lily Braun

(Indiana U.P., Bloomington, 1985), in American Historical Review, Vol. 92 (Feb. 1987), pp. 156-7.

Heinrich August Winkler, Der Schein der Normalität. Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik 1924 bis 1930

(Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf, 1985), in American Historical Review, Vol. 92 (April, 1987), pp. 443-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History.

‘In the Shadow of the Gunmen’, review of Stefan Aust, The Baader-Meinhof Group: the Inside Story of a Phenomenon

(Bodley Head, 1987), The Guardian, 19 June, 1987.

Christiane Eisenberg, Frühe Arbeiterbewegung und Genossenschaften

(Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn, 1985), in New German Critique, No. 42 (1987), pp. 188-92; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Business Ethics’, review of Peter Hayes, Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era

(Cambridge University Press, 1987), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 July, 1988.

‘A “Normal” Act of Genocide?’

Review of Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past. History Holocaust and National Identity (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), in The New York Times, 29 January, 1989.

‘Shifting the blame’

Review of Harold James, A German Identity 1770-1990 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1989), in The Times Literary Supplement, 23-29 June, 1989, p. 683.

Archiv für Sozialgeschichte

Vol. 26 (1986) in English Historical Review, Vol. 104 (1989), p. 776

‘Fun on the job’.

Review of Joan Campbell, Joy in Work. German Work: The national debate (Princeton, 1989), in The Times Literary Supplement, 1-7 December, 1989, p. 134.

‘Counselling the Kaiser’

Review of W. E. Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935: A socio-cultural profile (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989), in The Times Literary Supplement, 8-14 December, 1989, pp. 1357.

From racial hygiene to Auschwitz’

Review of Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1989) in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 January, 1990, pp. 18-19; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

James Woycke Birth Control in Germany 1871-1933

( Routledge, London, 1988), in History, Vol. 75, No. 243 (February, 1990), pp. 159-60.

Heinrich August Winkler, Der Weg in die Katastrophe. Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik 1930 bis 1933

(Berlin: J.H.W. Dietz Nachf., 1987), in American Historical Review, Vol. 95 (1990), pp. 195-6; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

Dorothee Wierling, Mädchen für alles: Arbeitsalltag und Lebensgeschichte städtischer Dienstmädchen um die Jahrhundertwende

(J.H.W. Dietz Nachf., Bonn, 1987) in English Historical Review, Vol. CV, No. 415 (April, 1990), pp. 520-1.

‘Towards unification’. Review of James J. Sheehan, German History 1770-1866

(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990), The Times Literary Supplement, 4-10 May, 1990, pp. 463-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997

“Final” or “first”‘?.

Review of Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The Final Solution in History, (Verso, London, 1990), and Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies (Yale, U.P., London, 1990) in The Jewish Chronicle, 6 July, 1990, p. 14.

Klaus Bade (ed.), Population, Labour and Migration in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Germany

(Berg, Oxford, 1987) in European History Quarterly Vol. 20 (1990), pp. 435-43.

‘The Politics of Reassurance’. Review of Helmut Schmidt, Retrospective

(Cape, London, 1990), in The Times Literary Supplement 27 July - 2 August, 1990, p. 796.

‘Hitler’s Policeman’. Review of Peter Padfield, Himmler, Reichsführer-SS

(Macmillan, London, 1990), in The Times Literary Supplement 24-30 August, 1990, pp. 899.

‘Too quick to judge’. Review of Thomas Nipperdey, Deutsche Geschichte 1866-1918, 1: Arbeitswelt und Burgergeist

(Beck, Munich, 1990), in The Times Literary Supplement 5-11 October 1990, p. 1,079 (see also Gustav Seibt, 'Urteilssprüche', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 November 1990, commenting on this review).

‘Weimarama’.

Review of Kalus Theweleit, Male Fantasies (2 vols., Polity Press, Cambridge, 1987 and 1989), in London Review of Books, 8 November 1990, p. 27; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

E.J Hobsbawm, Das Imperiale Zeitalter

(Frankfurt am Main, Campus Verlag, 1989) in 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. jahrhunderts, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January, 1991), pp. 140-1.

‘Telling tales and keeping quiet’. Review of Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society – Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945

(Oxford University Press, 1990) in The Jewish Chronicle, 8 March 1991.

‘Verwerfungen unter der autoritären Kruste’. Review of Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Der autoritäre Nationalstaat

(Fischer Taschenbach Verlag, Frankfurt, 1990) in Die Zeit, 22 March, 1991.

‘What was Hitler’s Secret?’

Review of Ian Kershaw, Hitler (Longman, 1991), in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 April, 1991, p. 23.

‘What was Hitler’s Secret?’

Review of Ian Kershaw, Hitler (Longman, 1991), in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 April, 1991,p. 23.

(Reinhard Spree, Health and Social Class in Imperial Germany

Berg, Oxford, 1988), in English Historical Review, Vol. 106, (April, 1991), pp. 507.

Reinhard Spree, Health and Social Class in Imperial Germany

Berg, Oxford, 1988), in English Historical Review, Vol. 106, (April, 1991), pp. 507.

Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society

in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 39/3 (July, 1991), pp. 485-88.

‘Medikalisierung der Gesellscha

Manfred Vasolds Geschichte der Epidemien und Seuchen seit dem Mittelalter'. Review of Manfred Vasold, Pest, Not und Schwere Plagen (C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 1991) in Die Zeit 42 (11 October 1991), p. 29.

Helga Kutz-Bauer, Arbeiterschaft, Arbeiterbewegung und bürgerlicher Staat in der Zeit der Großen Depression

(Bonn, 1988), in English Historical Review Vol. 107, no. 422 (Jan. 1992), pp. 242-4.

‘When hate becomes routine’.

Review of David Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992), Benny Morris, The Roots of Appeasement (Frank Cass, London 1991) and Marianne Walter, The Poison Seed (The Book Guild, London, 1991), in The Jewish Chronicle 27 March, 1992, pp. 37.

‘Geschlecht und Klasse’.

Review of Logie Barrow et al. (eds.), Nichts als Unterdrückung? (Münster, 1991), in Die Zeit, 15 May, 1992, pp. 22.

‘Rendering unto the Kaiser…

Review of Thomas A Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans. A Study of Leadership (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992), in The Times Literary Supplement 10 July, 1992, pp. 7.

‘The Bomb that Failed’. Review of Peter Hoffmann, Claus Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg und seine Brüder

(DVA, Stuttgart, 1992), Klemens von Klemperer, German Resistance against Hitler (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992), David Clay Large (ed.), Contending with Hitler (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992), and Francis Nicosia and Lawrence Stokes (eds.), Germans against Nazism (Berg Publishers, Oxford, 1992) in The Times Literary Supplement, 25 September, 1992, pp. 33; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Playing for the Devil. How much did Furtwängler really resist the Nazis?’

Review of Sam H Shirakawa, The Devil's Music Master: The controversial life and career of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992) and Fred K. Prieberg, Trial of Strength. Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Third Reich (Quartet Books, London, 1992), in The Times Literary Supplement, 13 November, 1992, pp. 3-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Das Empire verspielt? “Ende des Ruhms”: Eine neue Churchill-Biographie sorgt in England für Aufregung’.

Review of John Charmley, Churchill: The End of Glory (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1993), in Die Zeit, 22 January, 1993, pp. 16; English version version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Disputing in the Darkness’. Review of Ernst Piper (ed.), Forever in the Shadow of Hitler?

'Disputing in the Darkness'. Review of Ernst Piper (ed.), Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? (Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1993), Richard Lamb, War in Italy 1943-45 (John Murray, London, 1993) and Ronald Smelser and Rainer Zitelman (eds.), The Nazi Elite (Macmillan, London, 1993), in The Jewish Chronicle, 9 July, 1993, pp. 29.

‘No Sudden Descent’. Review of Norbert Frei, National Socialist Rule in Germany

(Blackwell, Oxford, 1993), in The Times Literary Supplement, 23 July 1993, p.25.

‘Peasants and the partisans’.

Review of Harold Werner, Fighting Back (Colombia University Press, New York, 1993) and Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler's Greece (Yale University Press, London, 1993) in The Jewish Chronicle, 15 October 1993, p. 23.

Gordon Uhlmann and Ursula Weisser (eds.), Krankenhausalltag seit den Zeiten der Cholera

(Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg, 1992) in Medical History, Vol. 37 (1993), pp. 472-3.

‘Are there Lessons in the Weimar Republic?’

Review of Richard Bessel, Germany After the First World War (Oxford University Press. Oxford, 1993), and Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder (Oxford University Press, New York), in The New York Times, 30 January 1994, p. 13.

‘Raking over Dark Embers’.

Review of David Cesarani (ed.), The Final Solution (Routledge, 1993) and Barbara Heinmannsberg (ed.), The Collective Silence (Macmillan, 1993), in The Jewish Chronicle, 11 March 1994, p. 35.

‘Cults and Crusades

Review of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, Secret Germany. Claus von Stauffenberg and the mystical crusade against Hitler (Cape, 1994) and Anton Gill, An Honourable Defeat. The fight against National Socialism in Germany, 1933-1945 (Heinemann, 1994), in The Times Literary Supplement, 5 August, 1994, p. 10.

‘Beyond the Historikerstreit’

Review of Imanuel Geiss, Der Hysterikerstreit: Ein unpolemischer Essay (Bouvier, Bonn, 1992) and Christa Hoffman, Stunden Null? Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Deutschland 1945 und 1989 (Bouvier, Bonn, 1992), in Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 28 (1994), pp. 83-86; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Explaining the Unexplainable’. Review of R.J.B. Bosworth, Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima

(Routledge, 1993), Richard Lukas, Did the Children Cry? (Hippocrene, 1993) and Harold James, A German Identity? (Phoenix paperback edn. 1994) in The Jewish Chronicle, 18 November 1994.

‘Pistols at twilight’. Review of Kevin McAleer, Dueling

The cult of honor in 'fin-de-siècle Germany' (Princeton University Press, 1994), in The Times Literary Supplement, 16 December 1994, p. 32.

‘Sins of the Rocketeers’. Review of Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich. Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era

The Free Press, New York, 1994) in The New York Times, 1 January, 1995, p. 2.

‘Cosy myth and uncomfortable reality of Islanders’ war’.

Review of Madeleine Bunting, The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German rule 1940-1945 Harper Collins, London, 1995), in The Jewish Chronicle, 20 January, 1995, p. 28.

‘War, bad books and other disasters’.

.Review of Christopher Coker, War and the 20th Centuary (Brassey's, London, 1995), Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals (Harper Collins, New York, 1995), and John Hutchinson, Modern Nationalism (Harper Collins, London, 1995) in The Jewish Chronicle, 10 March 1995.

Review of David Blackbourn, Marpingen. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany

(Oxford University Press, 1994), in German History, Vol. 13, No. 1, (1995), pp. 121-5; reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997

‘Jenseits der Schattenlinien’. Review of Joseph Rovan, Geschichte der Deutschen

(Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1995), in Die Zeit, Nr. 15 (7 April, 1995), p. 30; English version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Primary schooling and playing’. Review of Martin Gilbert, The Day the War Ended

(Harper Collins, London, 1995) and Hugh Thomas, Dopplegängers (Fourth Estate, London, 1995), in The Jewish Chronicle, 9 June, 1995

‘The Deceptions of Albert Speer’

The Times Literary Supplement, 29 September 1995, pp. 4-6; reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

‘Bürglerliche Gesellschaft und charismatische Herrschaft’. Review of Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesselschaftsgeschichte,

Vol. 3 (C.H. Beck, Munich, 1995), in Die Zeit, No. 42 (13 October, 1995), pp. 32-33; English revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

Review of Ellen Jahn, Die Cholera in Medizin und Pharmazie im Zeitalter des Hygienikers Max von Pettenkofer

(Peter Lang, Stuttgart, 1994), in Isis, Vol. 86, No. 3 (September, 1995), p. 508.

‘Guilt and other European Traits’. Review of Hartley Shawcross, Life Sentence: The Memoirs of Lord Shawcross

(Constable, London, 1995), Tom Bower, Blind Eye to Murder (2nd ed., Little, Brown, London, 1995), Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman, Master Race (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1995), and Roger Eatwell, Fascism: A History (Chatto and Windus, London 1995), in The Jewish Chronicle 1 December 1995.

‘Wives against the Nazis’. Review of Nathan Stolzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany

(W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 1996) in The Sunday Telegraph, 17 November 1996.

‘Why the plot failed’. Review of Joachim C. Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death

(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1996), in The Times Literary Supplement, 22 November 1996, p. 28.

Review of Maria Tatar, Lustmord. Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany

(Princeton University Press, 1995), in German History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (November 1996), pp. 414-415.

‘German Questions’. Review of Michael A. Meyer and Michael Brenne(eds.), German-Jewish History in Modern Times, Vol. I

Tradition and Enlightenment (Colombia University Press, New York, 1996) Michael Berkowitz, Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), William Brustein, The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party 1925-1933 (Yale University Press, 1996), Nathan Stolzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany (W.W.Norton and Co., New York, 1996), Yehuda Bauer, Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations 1939-1945 (Yale University Press, 1996), and George Lavy, Germany and Israel: Moral Debate and National Interest (Frank Cass, London, 1996), in The Jewish Chronicle 21 February, 1997, p. 27.

‘The Beginning of the End’. Review of Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution 1933-39

(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1997), in The Sunday Telegraph, 6 April, 1997, p. 7.

‘A Slave labour empire’. Review of Ulrich Herbert, Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

(Cambridge University Press, 1997), in The Sunday Telegraph, 6 July, 1997, p. 22.

Review of Nancy R. Reagin, A German Women’s Movement

(University of Nebraska Press, 1996), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69/2 (June, 1997), pp. 386-88.

‘Ordinary mass-murderers’. Review of George C. Browder, Hitler’s Enforcers. The Gestapo and the SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution

(OUP New York, 1997), in The Times Literary Supplement, 8 August, 1997, p. 31.

Review of Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914

(Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1996), in Labor History, Vol. 38, No. 203, Spring-Summer 1997, pp. 379-80.

‘More divided than ever’. Review of Giles MacDonogh, Berlin

(Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1997), in The Times Literary Supplement, 10 October 1997, p. 33.

‘Silly Schoolboy Howlers’. Review of Kimberley Cornish, The Jew of Linz: Hitler, Wittgenstein and their Secret Battle for the Mind

(Century, London, 1998), in The Sunday Telegraph, 22 March 1998.

Review of Mary Lindemann, Health and Healing in 18th-century Germany

(Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996), in Medical History, Vol. 42 (1998), pp. 248-9.

‘Der Mustergau. Ein neues Buch über die Rolle Hamburgs im “Dritten Reich”‘

Review of Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne (eds.), Kein abgeschlossenes Kapitel. Hamburg im "Dritten Reich" (EVA/Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 1997), in Die Zeit, 14 May, 1998, p. 42.

‘In trivial pursuit of Hitler’. Review of Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler. The Search for the Origins of his Evil

(Macmillan, London, 1998), in The Sunday Telegraph, 12 July, 1998).

‘Blind to the light at the end of the tunnel’. Review of Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century

(Penguin Press, London, 1998), in The Jewish Chronicle, 17 July, 1998, p. 30.

‘Argument Without End’. Review of William Lamont (ed.), Historical Controversies and Historians

(UCL Press, London 1998), in History Today, Vol. 48, No. 8 (August, 1998), pp. 56-7.

‘How Hitler got that way’. Review of Ian Kershaw, Hitler. Vol. I: 1889-1936: Hubris

(London: Penguin, 1998), in The Sunday Telegraph, 13 September 1998, p. 13.

‘Medium must be right, whatever the message’

Review of Lawrence Rees, The Nazis: A Warning from History (London: BBC Worldwide, 1998) and Klaus Fischer, History of an Obsession (London: Constable, 1998), in The Jewish Chronicle, 18 September 1998, p. 44.

‘Stolperstein Kreidefelsen’. Review of Hagen Schulze, Phönix Europa

(Berlin: Siedler, 1998), in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 October 1998, p. L33.

‘Nasty, brutish and short? Eurocentric efforts to describe the twentieth century’

Review of Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis (eds.), The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1000), in The Times Literary Supplement, 12 February 1999, pp. 3-4.

‘Not very seductive’. Review of Rainer Zitelman, Hitler: The Politics of Seduction

(London House, London, 1999), in The Jewish Chronicle, 19 February 1999

‘Bodies tried by closed minds’. Review of Ulinka Rublack, The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany

in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 September 1999, p. 34.

Ute Planert, Antifeminismus im Kaiserreich

(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1998), in German History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2000), pp. 125-7.

‘Die Vielfalt Europas’. Review of Michael Salewski, Geschichte Europas

(C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2000) and Mark Mazower, Der dunkle Kontinent (Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin), in Die Zeit, 25 May 2000, p. 55.

‘Rehkeule statt Assistenten’. Review of Rüdiger Hohls and Konrad H. Jarausch (eds.), Versäumte Fragen

(DVA, Stuttgart, 2000), in die tageszeitung (Belin), 8 August 2000, p. 17.

Kathryn Kish Sklar et al. (eds.), Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany

(Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1998,) in German History, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 273-4.

Helmut Berding et al. (eds.), Kriminalität und abweichendes Verhalten

(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1999), in German History, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 2000), pp. 379-80.

‘Gegen die postmoderne Denkverwilderung’. Review of Hans-Ulrich Welher, Umbruch und Kontinuität

(Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), in die tageszeitung (Berlin), 7 November 2000, p. 16.

‘Proper contempt leads to improper history’. Review of Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History

(London, Macmillan, 2000), in The Jewish Chronicle, 22 December 2000, p. 30.

‘Ein Sieg für die freie Rede’. Review of Eva Menasse, Der Holocaust vor Gericht

(Berlin, Siedler Verlag, 2000), in die tageszeitung (Berlin), 23 January 2001, p. 16.

Anne Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness

(New York, Oxford University Press, 1999), in Social History, Vol. 26, No. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 134-5.

‘An opportunist solely interested in power? Or an ideological fanatic and visceral anti-semite? It depends entirely on which historian you read’. Review of John Lukacs, The Hitler of History London, Weidenfeld, 2001)

in The Sunday Times, 4 January 2001, Review supplement, pp. 36-7.

Regula Ludi, Die Fabrikation des Verbrechens. Zur Geschichte der modernen Kriminalpolitik 1750-1859

(Tübingen, Bibliotheca Academica, 1999), in German History Vol. 19, No. 1 (January, 2001), pp. 83-85.

‘A trial under cross examination.’ Review of D. D. Guttenplan, The Holocaust on Trial

(London, Granta Books, 2001), in The Sunday Telegraph, 18 March 2001, Review Section, p. 11.

‘Atmosphäre des Schreckens’. Review of Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler

(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001), in die tageszeitung (Berlin), 10 April 2001, p. 16.

Review of Rainer Liedtke, Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester c.1850-1914

(OUP, 1998), and Jörg Vögele, Urban Mortality Change in England and Germany, 1870-1913 (Liverpool University Press, 1998), in Urban History 28 (2001) 2, pp. 319-21

‘An umbrella that’s almost too big for the storm’.

Review of John Roth, Elizabeth Maxwell (eds.), Remembering for the Future, 3 vols., Palgrave, London, 2001, in The Jewish Chronicle 10 August 2001.

Review of Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930

Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Andrew Cliff, Peter Haggett and Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Deciphering Global Epidemics (Cambridge University Press, 1998) in European History Quarterly, Vol. 31 (2001) No. 3, pp. 447-53.

Review of Jürgen Martschukat, Inszeniertes Töten

(Böhlau, Cologne, 2000), in German History Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2001), p. 446-451.

‘Hitler war’s’. Review of Peter Longerich, Der ungeschriebene Befehl,

in Der Tagesspiegel, 24 September 2001, p. 7.

‘Diminished Responsibility’. Review of Richard Overy, Interrogations

in The Times Literary Supplement, 26 October 2001, pp. 3-4.

‘Agenda of mass murder’. Review of Mark Roseman, The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting

(Penguin, 2002), in The Jewish Chronicle, 18 January 2002, p. 29.

‘Schwarz + arm = tot. Ungleichgericht: Die Geschichte der Todesstrafe in den USA’. Review of Jürgen Martschukat, Die Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika

(C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2002), in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 20 March 2002, p. L14.

Review of Thomas Nutz, Strafanstalt als Besserungsmaschine

(Oldenbourg, Munich, 2001), in German History Vol. 20 (2002), No. 3, July 2002, pp. 387-88.

‘Truth, power and history’. Review of Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness

(Princeton UP, Princeton, 2002), in Prospect 80 (November, 2002), pp. 64-66.

‘Before the abyss’. Review of Jonathan Wright, Gustav Stresemann – Weimar’s Greatest Statesman

(OUP, Oxford, 2002), in The Times Literary Supplement, 8 November 2002, p. 10.

‘High dudgeon is a low form of history’. Review of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, A Moral Reckoning: The Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

(Little, Brown, New York, 2002), in The Jewish Chronicle, 8 November 2002, p. 40.

‘Bequem trägt’s sich auf anderer Leute Schultern. Und es lag doch am Versailler Vertrag! Für seine neue Hitler-Biografie wärmt Ralf Georg Reuth altbekannte revisionistische Ideen wieder auf.’

Review of Ralf Georg Reuth, Hitler: Eine politische Biographie (Piper Verlag 2003) in Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 January 2003. Feuilleton, p. 20.

‘Selbst Teil der Dunkelheit. Die religiösen Anschauungen der Nationalsozialisten.’

Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich. Nazi Conceptions of Christianity 1919-1945 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003), in Süddeutsche Zeitung 160 (15 July 2003). p. 14.

‘Ethics under Examination.’ Review of John Cornwell, Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War and the Devil’s Pact

(Viking, London, 2003) in The Sunday Telegraph Review Section (14 September 2003).

‘Kursänderung.’ Review of Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte

Vol 4 (C.H.Beck, Munich, 2003), in Frankfurter Rundschau 8 October 2003, Sachbuch, p. 15.

Review of Ulf Schmidt, Medical Films, Ethics and Euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The History of Medical Research and Teaching Films of the Reich Office for Educational Films/Reich Institute for Films in Science and Education, 1933-1945

in German History vol. 22, no. 2 (2004), pp. 288-90.

Review of Christoph Cornelissen, Gerhard Ritter: Geschichtswissenschaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert

(Düsseldorf, 2001), in English Historical Review 119 (2004) No. 482 (June, 2004), pp. 756-9.

Review of Alan B. Steinweis and Daniel E. Rogers (eds.), The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and its Legacy

(University of Nebraska Press, 2003) in History Vol. 89/3, No. 295 (July, 2004), pp. 488-9.

‘Behind the glass box’. Review of David Cesarani, Eichmann

(Heinemann, 2004) in The Jewish Chronicle 10 September 2004, p. 43.

Review of Jennifer Jenkins, Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics n Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg

(Cornell UP, 2003) and Carolyn Kay, Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886-1914 (Toronto UP, 2002), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 77 (2005), 218-20.

Review of Pamela E. Swett, Neighbors and Enemies The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933

(CUP, New York, 2004), in American Historical Review December 2005, pp. 1,619-20.

‘”Science” in the service of racism and genocide.’ Review of Heather Pringle, The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust

(Viking Canada, 2006), in Toronto Globe and Mail, 28 January 2006, D7.

‘A war theory that bombs’ Review of A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?

(Bloomsbury, London, 2006), in The Mail on Sunday, 12 February 2006.

‘Broken Glass, Broken Lives’. Review of Martin Gilbert, Kristallnacht: Prelude to Disaster

(HarperCollins, London, 2005) and Neil Gregor (ed.), Nazism, War and Genocide (Exeter UP, 2005), in BBC History Magazine Vol 7 (2006) No. 4, p. 55.

‘A Most Irksome Matter’. Review of Mary Lindemann, Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great

(Johns Hopkins UP, 2006), in London Review of Books, Vol 28 No .13 (6 July 2006), pp. 25-6.

Review of Forschungsstelle fur Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (ed.), Hamburg im “Dritten Reich”

(Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006), in Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, Vol. 92 (2006), pp. 167-171.

Parasites of Plunder?’ Review of Götz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

(Metropolitan Books, New York, 2007), in The Nation, Vol. 284/2, 8/15 January 2007, pp. 23-8.

‘The forgotten people of the Third Reich’. Review of Jill Stephenson, Hitler’s Home Front

(Hambledon, London, 2006), in BBC History Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2 (February, 2007), p. 59.

‘Why It Happened the Way It Did’. Review of Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices. Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

(The Penguin Press, New York, 2007), in The Nation, Vol. 284, No. 22 (4 June, 2007), pp. 29-34.

‘Whose Orders?’ Review of Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

(HarperCollins, New York, 2007), in The New York Times, 24 June 2007, pp. 16-17.

‘In the most personal manner’. Review of Adam Zamoyski, Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

(Harper Collins, London, 2007), in The Times Literary Supplement, 20 July 2007, p. 22.

‘A three-way road straight to hell’. Review of Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

(Cape, London, 2007), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 December 2007, pp. 24-25.

‘Immoral Rearmament’. Review of Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

(Viking, 2006), in The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIV, No. 20 (20 December 2007), pp. 76-81.

‘A Human History Of Nazi Occupation’. Review of: The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories

(Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2006), in The New York Sun, 12 March 2008.

‘All Hailed: The Meaning of the Hitler Salute’. Review of The Hitler Salute, by Tilman Allert

(Metropolitan Books, New York, April 2008), in The New York Sun, 16 April 2008.

‘How Willing Were They?’ Review of Peter Fritsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich,

(Harvard University Press, 2008) and Gordon J. Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City (Harvard University Press, 2008), in The New York Review of Books Vol. LV, Number 11 (26 June 2008), pp. 59-61.

Review of Robert P. Stephens, Germans on Drugs

(Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor, 2007) in Central European History Vol. 41 (2008), pp. 338-40.

‘Let’s Learn from the English’. Review of Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2008), in London Review of Books Vol. 30, No. 18 (25 September 2008), pp. 25-6.

Review of Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

(Bodley Head, 2008), in History Today, Voll. 89 no. 4 (April, 2009), p. 62.

‘After the War, the Fightback’. Review of Richard Bessel, Germany 1945: From War to Peace

(Simon and Schuster, London, 2009), in The Mail on Sunday, 5 April 2009, Culture section, page 10.

‘Brutal pruning of the White Rose’. Review of Frank McDonough, Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler

(The History Press, 2009), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 April 2009, pp. 50-1.

‘Tank traps’. Review of Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War. A New History of the Second World War

(Allen Lane, 2009), in The Times Literary Supplement, 21/28 August 2009, pp. 9-10.

Review of Cora S Goldstein, Capturing the German Eye. American Visual Propaganda in Occupied Gernany

(University of Chicago Press, 2009), in History Today, September 2009, pp. 62-3.

‘Cite Ourselves!’. Review of André Burguiére, The Annales School. An Intellectual History

(Cornell University Press, 2009), in The London Review of Book,, Vol. 31, No. 23 (3 December 2009), pp. 12-14.

Review of Ortwin Pelc and Susanne Grötz (eds.), Konstrukteur der modernen Stadt. William Lindley in Hamburg und Europa 1808-1900

(Munich, Dölling & Dölling, 2008), in Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte Vol. 95 (2009), pp. 252-4.

‘Shattering Effects of Hateful Deeds’. Review of Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938

(Harvard University Press, 2009), in The Times Higher Education Supplement 11-17 March 2010, pp. 54-5.

Review of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, The Silences of Hammerstein. A German Story

(Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2009), in History Today, 60/8 (August 2010), p. 60.

‘Hitler’s little helper’. Review of Adrian Weale, The SS: A New History

(Little, Brown, 2010), in New Statesman, 23 August 2010, pp. 50-51.

‘Als Polen doppelt verloren war.’ Review of Norman Davies, Die grosse Katastrophe. Europa im Krieg 1939-1945

(Droemer/Knaur, Munich, 2009), in Die Zeit, 35/2010, Feuilleton, p. 50.

‘Who remembers the Poles?’ Review of Tim Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

(Bodley Head, London, 2010), in London Review of Books, Vol. 32, No. 21, November 2010, pp. 21-22.

‘The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide’. Review of Daniel Blatman, The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide

(Harvard UP, 2011), The Times Higher Education Supplement, 20 January 2011.

‘The Scramble for Europe’. Review of Shelley Baranowski, Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler

(Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010), in London Review of Books Vol. 33, No. 4, 3 February 2011, pp. 17-19.

‘Wolves at the door.’ Review of Frederick Taylor, Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany

(Bloomsbury, London, 2011), in New Statesman 7 March 2011, pp. 45-7.

Review of John Lukacs, The Future of History

(Yale UP, New Haven, May 2011), in The Times Higher Education Supplement 9 June 2011, p. 59.

‘The truth behind Odessa’. Review of Gerald Steinacher, Nazis on the Run. How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice (OUP, 2011)

in The Guardian, 25 June 2011, Saturday Review, p. 9.

‘Dateline Hitler’. Review of Steve Wick, The Long Night: William L. Shirer and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), in The New Republic, 18 July 2011.

‘Adolf and Eva’. Review of Heike B. Görtemaker, Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

(Knopf, New York, 2011) in The National Interest 115 (Sept/Oct 2011), pp. 76-86.

‘The Mistakes’. Review of Zara Steiner, The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939

(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011), in The Book. An Online Review at The New Republic 1 September 2001.

‘Into Dust’. Review of Ian Kershaw, The End Hitler’s Germany 1944-45

(Allen Lane/Penguin, 2011), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 17 (8 September 2011), pp. 11-13.

‘Blueprint for a perfect Nazi’. Review of Robert Gerwarth, Hitler’s Hangman. The Life of Heydrich.

(Yale UP, 2011), in The Times Higher Education Supplement 2,019 (6-12 October 2011), pp. 52-53.

Review of Patrick Salmon et al. (eds.), Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII””: German Unification 1989-1990

(London, FCO/Routledge, 2010), in Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 52-53.

‘The Road to Slaughter’. Review of Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War

(Belknap Press, Harvard UP, 2011), in The New Republic: The Book (online, 5 December 2011).

‘Spot and Sink’. Review of David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2011), in The London Review of Books, 33/24 (15 December 2011), pp. 31-2.

‘The killing machine’. Review of Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

(Oxford University Press, 2011), in The New Statesman, 19 December 2011-1 January 2012, pp. 80-1.

Review of David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon, The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth Century England

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), in The Independent, 19 December 2011.

‘Gruesomeness is my policy’ Review of Sebastian Conrad, German Colonialism: A Short History

(Cambridge University Press, 2011), in London Review of Books 34/3 (9 February 2012), pp. 35-7.

‘Führer fictions’. Review of A. N. Wilson, Hitler: A Short Biography

(Harper Press, 2012), in The New Statesman 12 March 2012, pp. 45-47.

‘What can we do in times like these?” Review of Uta Gerhardt and Thomas Karlauf (eds.), The Night of Broken Glass

(Polity Press, 2012), in The Guardian, Review Section, 14 April 2012, p. 7.

‘Food Fights’. Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War

(Penguin Press, New York, 2012) in The Nation, 16 April 2012, pp. 27-32.

‘Defeat Out of Victory’. Review of David Stahel, Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East

(Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The New Republic: The Book, 26 April 2012.

‘Nothing They Wouldn’t Do’. Review of Harold James, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firmi

(Princeton UP, 2012), in The London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 12 (21 June 2012), pp. 21-24.

‘The Other Horror.’ Review of R.M.Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War

(Yale University Press), in The New Republic: The Book, 25 June 2012.

‘Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland’.

The Guardian, Review, Saturday 27th August 2012.

‘The Life and Death of a Capital’. Review of Thomas Friedrich, Hitler’s Berlin: Abused City

(Yale University Press), in The New Republic: The Book (27 September 2012).

‘The Truth About World War II’.

Review of Antony Beevor, The Second World War (Little, Brown) and Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General (Random House), in The New York Review of Books LIX/15 (11 October, 2012), pp. 52-56. German edition (Beevor only) in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30 September 2014.

‘Keeping history on the straight and narrow’. Review of J. H. Elliott, History in the Making

(Yale University Press, 2012), in The New Statesman, 11 October 2012.

‘When times were terrible’. Review of Halik Kochanski, The Eagle Unnbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2012), in The Guardian, Saturday 10 November 2012.

Prophet in a Tuxedo’. Review of Shulamit Volkov, Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman (

Yale UP, 2012), in The London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 22 (22 November 2012), pp. 20-22.

Conspicuous consumption’. Review of Helen Bynum: Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (OUP),

in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 December 2012, pp. 40-41.

‘An unremittingly dull history of World War Two’. Review of Norman Stone: World War Two: A Short History

(Allen Lane, 2012), in The New Statesman, 24 January 2013, p. 44.

‘Kisses for the Duce.’ Review of Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy

(Bodley Head, 2012), and Paul Corner, The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford University Press, 2012), in The London Revoew of Books, Vol. 35, No. 3 (7 February 2013), pp. 6-8. German translation, ‘Küsse für den Duce’, Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, Vol. 87, No. 7 (July 2013), pp. 633-40.

‘Thank you, Dr Morell.’ Review of Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, Was Hitler Ill?

(Polity, 2012), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, number 4 (21 February 2013), p. 37.

Review of Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers

(Yale UP, 2012), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21-27 February 2013, p. 53.

Review of Eric Hobsbawm, Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

(Little, Brown 2013), in The Guardian, online 20 March 2013, Guardian Review 23 March 2013, p. 7.

‘Marx v. The Rest’. Review of Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

(Norton, New York, 2013), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, Number 10 (23 May, 2013), pp. 17-20.

Review of Brendan Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy. 1453 to the Present

Present (Penguin/Allen Lane 2013), in The Guardian, review section, 25 May 2013.

‘A middle-class revolt? It was the Depression and not rampant inflation that drove German voters into the arms of the Nazis.’

Review of Frederick Taylor, The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class (Bloomsbury, 2013), in Prospect, September 2013, pp. 70-72.

‘Snip and wheel. The shock of an execution – for its sixteenth-century spectators and for readers of the executioner’s diary’

Review of Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner. Life and death, honour and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century (Bodley Head, 2013), in The Times Literary Supplement, 6 September 2013, pp. 3-4.

‘Autoerotisch’. Review of The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle

by Bernhard Rieger (Harvard University Press, 2013), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, no. 17 (12 September, 2013), pp. 35-37.

‘The staggering inaccuracy of bombs’. Review of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

by Richard Overy (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2013), in The Guardian, Saturday Review, 28 September 2013, p. 9.

‘Bloodbath before dawn’. Review of Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising, by Alexandra Richie (William Collins, 2013), and Year Zero: A History of 1945

by Ian Buruma (Atlantic Books, 2013), in The New Statesman, 18-24 October 2013, pp. 40-41.

‘What the War Was Really About’. Review of Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

by Paul Kennedy (Random House, 2013), in The New York Review of Books, LX/19 (5 December, 2013), pp. 50-54. See also exchange of letters inNYRB LXI/2 (6 February 2014), p. 44.

‘Disorderly Cities’. Review of A Blessing in Disguise; War and Town Planning in Europe, 1939-45

edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow (DOM, 2013), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, No. 23 (5 December 2013), pp. 27-29.

‘No Sarajevo, no Sobibór?’ review of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I.

By Richard Ned Lebow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9-15 January 2014, p. 50.

‘Neither forgotten nor forgiven’. Review of 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

by Slavko Goldstein (New York Review Books, 2013), in The Guardian, review section, 18 January 2014, p. 8.

‘The Conspiracists’. Review of Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery

by Benjamin Carter Hett (Oxford University Press, 2014), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 36, No. 9 (8 May 2014), pp. 3-9.

‘Was Stalinism worse than nazism?’. Review of The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

by Roger Moorhouse (Bodley Head, 2014), in The Guardian, 9 August 2014, Review Section, p. 6.

Review of Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

by Bettina Stangneth, in The Guardian, 18 October 2014, Review Section, p. 6.

‘A Tory rogue elephant. An account of “one man who made history” by another who seems just to make it up’. Review of The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

by Boris Johnson (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014), in The New Statesman, 7-14 November 2014, pp. 48-49.

‘”Equality exists in Valhalla”’. Review of Neil MacGregor, Germany: Memories of a Nation

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2014, in London Review of Books, 36/23 (4 December 2014), pp. 37-39.

‘Hitler’s Artists’. Review of Jonathan Petropoulos, Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi

(Yale UP, 2014), in The Sunday Times: Culture, 1 February 2015, p. 44.

Review of Timothy W Ryback, Hitler’s First Victims: And One Man’s Race for

(Bodley Head, 2015), in The Guardian, review section, 14 March 2015, p. 7.

‘Beyond the call of duty’. Review of Charles: The Heart of a King, by Catherine Mayer

Mayer (W H Allen, 2015), in The New Statesman, 10-16 April 2015, pp. 46-7.

Review of Gavriel Rosenfeld, Hi Hitler!

(Cambridge UP, 2015), in The Guardian, Review section, 2 May 2015, p. 9.

Review of Peter Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography

(Bodley Head, 2015), in Prospect, June 2015, pp. 48-51.

‘The Anatomy of Hell’. Review of Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); Kim Wünschmann, Before Auschwitz (Harvard UP, 2015); Sarah Helm, Ravensbrück (Doubleday, 2915); Elissa Mailänder, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence Michigan State UP, 2015); Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps (Yale UP, 2015); and Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkeimer, Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2014), in The New York Review of Books, Vol. LXII number 12, 9 July 2015, pp. 52-54.

Review of Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

(Bodley Head, 2015), in The Guardian Review section, 12 September 2015, p. 8.

Review of James Holland, The War in the West – A New History, Vol. I: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

(Bantam Press, 2015), in The Mail on Sunday, 25 October 2015, Event supplement, p. 31.

‘These people are intolerable’. Review of Pierpaolo Barbieri, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War

(Harvard University Press, 2015), in The London Review of Books, 37/21 (5 November 2015), pp. 39-42.