Andrew David Stedman Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned. However, historians (and politicians) have been divided about the viability of alternative courses of action. Andrew...

Timothy Snyder We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million...

John Keegan The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally...

Anthony McCarten From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...

Keggie Carew Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits...

Bettina Stangneth A New York Times Notable Book of 2014Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before...

Gilbert Achcar There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust―the phrase alone can occasion outrage. Political scientist Gilbert Achcar analyzes the various Arab responses to Nazism,...

Alistair Horne During six weeks in 1940, Hitler's blitzkrieg shattered the redoubtable Maginot Line and, shortly thereafter, the French army. No historian has written a more definitive chronicle of that...

John Lukacs The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of the twentieth century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated...

Andrew Roberts Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential - and controversial - British politicians of the 1930s.A fox-hunting Anglo-Catholic aristocrat, nicknamed 'The Holy Fox'...

Mark Mazower Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third...

Christopher Hale ‘Over the years I learned which hooks to use to catch which fish … Hungary really offered the Jews to us like sour beer, and Hungary was the...