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November 30, 2017

OLM Favorites: Desperately Seeking Solzhenitsyn

November 30, 2017/ Michael Johnson

Every correspondent in Moscow wanted to be the first to find Solzhenitsyn after he won the Nobel Prize in 1970. Michael Johnson had that honor - but the great Russian writer wasn’t altogether pleased so see him.

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November 30, 2017/ Michael Johnson/
Politics & History
December 2017, history, Michael Johnson, politics
October 31, 2017

A Sheet of Iron All Night

October 31, 2017/ Peter L. Belmonte

The battle of Passchendaele is remembered as one of the most futile and horrific of the First World War. A new history by Nick Lloyd searches for some method behind the mud and madness.

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October 31, 2017/ Peter L. Belmonte/
Politics & History
history, November 2017, politics
October 31, 2017

A Boy Who Would Be King

October 31, 2017/ Greg Waldmann

How did Donald Trump, a vacuous, bigoted sociopath, get to the White House? He did it by being himself.

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October 31, 2017/ Greg Waldmann/
Politics & History
greg waldmann, history, November 2017, politics
October 27, 2017

Book Review: The Second World Wars

October 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Veteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.

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October 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue, world war II
October 23, 2017

Book Review: Trump is F*cking Crazy

October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Former newscaster and sports commentator Keith Olbermann is a new star of YouTube for his strident opposition to President Trump; his new book provides the transcript.

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October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
October 23, 2017

Book Review: Iran: A Modern History

October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A sprawling new history of Iran from the 16th century to the present brings the multi-faceted story of Persia alive.

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October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
October 10, 2017

Book Review: Russia in Flames

October 10, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A big, lively new history assesses the troubled life and blighted nature of Bolshevism.

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October 10, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
October 04, 2017

Book Review: Vanguard of the Revolution

October 04, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The grand, global history of Communism's century-long reign of terror is the subject of A. James McAdams' authoritative new book.

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October 04, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
October 03, 2017

Book Review: Adults in the Room

October 03, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Former finance minister for Greece Yanis Varoufakis has written a book about his time on the world stage during his country's financial crisis.

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October 03, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
September 30, 2017

A Precedent Whilst the World Stands

September 30, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

In addition to the pageantry, marital eccentricities, and political fireworks, the Tudors were also industrious religious persecutors. As "A Year with the Tudors" continues, a vivid new book tells the stories of the martyrs burned by Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I.

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September 30, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Features
history, October 2017, Steve Donoghue
September 30, 2015

Keeping Up With the Romans - Hits and Myths

September 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Two thousand years ago, the Roman historian Suetonius wrote about the lives and loves of the founding rulers of the Roman Empire. Historian Tom Holland takes up the familiar story in his new book Dynasty.

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September 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient rome, history, October 2015, Steve Donoghue
April 16, 2015

Book Review: "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"

April 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In time for the hundred-year anniversary of the Ottoman killing of over a million Armenians, a gripping new history tells the whole story of the tragedy

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April 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2015, history
April 01, 2015

Book Review: The Baltic

April 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

For more than a thousand years, the sprawling area of the Baltic has played host to history, art, and fitful commerce - a new history tells the story.

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April 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2015, history
March 28, 2015

Book Review: Ravensbruck

March 28, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In 1939 the Nazis established their only concentration camp specifically for women; a comprehensive new book tells the history of Ravensbruck

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March 28, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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history, March 2015, nazi germany
March 16, 2015

Book Review: Akhenaten & The Origins of Monotheism

March 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The rebel pharaoh who instituted a radical new monotheism gets a highly-detailed and revisionist investigation

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March 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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ancient egypt, history, March 2015
January 18, 2015

Book Review: The Middle Ages

January 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A nimble and tremendously engaging history of the Middle Ages finally gets translated into English

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January 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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history, January 2015
November 20, 2014

Book Review: Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination

November 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

It's well known that Hitler looked to Mussolini's success in Italy as a model for his own fascism, but a fascinating new book details the lesser-known fact that Hitler had another model as well - an earlier and more exotic one.

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November 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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history, nazi germany, November 2014
November 10, 2014

Book Review: WWII - A Chronicle of Soldiering

November 10, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Fifty years ago, the author of "From Here to Eternity" wrote a vivid, impressionistic account of the Second World War, and that fascinating book now enjoys a new edition

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November 10, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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history, November 2014, Second World War
October 19, 2014

Book Review: The Collapse

October 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Twenty-five years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and the structure of European politics changed literally overnight. A fantastic new book dissects a turning point in modern history

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October 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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history, October 2014
September 21, 2014

Book Review: Italian Venice

September 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

An engrossing new history takes readers past the modern Disney version of Venice

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September 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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history, September 2014
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