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20th-century history
In City of Light, City of Shadows, the buildings and boulevards of Paris come to life, while the conflict between the modern and the traditional is conspicuous
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s Bloody Panico! is an amusing, though somewhat rancorous book
Books like Mick Conefrey’s Fallen can have something of the appeal of a detective novel
Fifty years ago today, on April 25, 1974, Europe was stunned by an almost bloodless military coup that removed the continent’s most durable dictatorship
The Nazis saw the character as a useful tool of propaganda
‘In Laikipia, rainfall varies throughout the year and year to year,’ my neighbor Tom told me when I first knew the valley three decades ago
Thanks to Ruby Lal’s Vagabond Princess, we now know her account of the times to be of immense value
He should have pointed out to Putin that Hitler’s predicament could well be applied to Putin himself
The damaging effects of his coup continue to this day
He was very at ease in the company of gay men at a time when homosexual acts were illegal
