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Germans Were Sorry After the Second World War, But Not About Nazism
Book Review: ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955’, by Harald Jähner
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The Eternal Quest To Blame Crime on Anyone But Criminals
Book Review: ‘The Knife Went In’ (2018), by Theodore Dalrymple
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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War
Book Review: Sean McMeekin’s “Stalin’s War”
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The Lost World of the Titanic
Book Review of ‘A Night to Remember’, the Classic Story of the Disaster
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Remembering the Lost World of Europe’s Jews
Book Review: ‘The Love of Mortal Beings’, by Batnadiv HaKarmi
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Black Flags of the Caribbean
Book Review: ‘Black Flags of the Caribbean’ (2021), by Simon Cottee
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How to Understand Vladimir Putin and His Regime
Book Review of ‘We Need to Talk about Putin’, by Mark Galeotti
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The Shah’s View of the Revolution that Felled Him
Iranian Revolution, Then and Now
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Spy Games in the English Civil War
Book Review: ‘The King’s Spy’ (2021), by Mark Turnbull
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When Was the New Testament Written?
Dating the Gospels, according to Maurice Casey.
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Women and Terrorism: The Case of the May 19th Communist Organization
Book Review: ‘Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group’ (2019), by William Rosenau
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Kyle Orton
The Shah, the Cold War, and the Islamists
Book Review: ‘The Shah’ (2011), by Abbas Milani
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