Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn
A ludicrous study of Hitler recasts the Führer as a precursor of Simon CowellMichael Munn has spent his life – at least as he implausibly tells it – schmoozing with the beautiful and the damned. He bonded with Steve McQueen while riding pillion on...
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin 1986-2012 – review
The powerful reportage of a friend and rival is greater than the sum of its partsTo read a great newspaper reporter's work in a collected volume is entirely different from the cumulative effect of the articles over time. One gets a sense – perhaps a ...
Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review
Drawing on a cache of smuggled love letters, Orlando Figes movingly charts a romance that blossomed in the unlikliest circumstances"Death solves all problems," declared Joseph Stalin, adding with his customary brutality: "No man, no problem." Anyone fo...
David Starkey: My family values
The historian talks about his familyI was born at the Helm Chase nursing home in Kendal and I still have the receipt. It was before the National Health Service so you had to pay. It was £3 and something, which was three times what my father earned in ...
Under Every Leaf by William Beaver
A study of the British empire's spies"If knowledge is power," wrote a military analyst in 1880, "ignorance is weakness." That was Britain's trouble for much of the 19th century. Every schoolboy knows – or used to, when history consisted mainly of bor...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan – review
The story of two Afghan sculptures, destroyed after a millennium and a halfIn 2001, in a violent attempt to advance the cause of Islamic fundamentalism, a clutch of men empowered by the Taliban brought down a titanic pair of structures that loomed over...
Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz
A demi-monde that's all but vanishedThere were three of us: me, Lorenzo Marioni, and a leather-jacketed vicar whose name now escapes me. We were sitting around one of the Formica tables in the New Piccadilly, the last surviving Italian caff on Denman S...
