The New York Review of Books

‘Talking All the Way’

February 26, 2004

The Goblin at War

December 4, 2003

Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity by Alexander B. Rossino

Hitler’s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland,and the USSR, 1940–1945 by Chris Mann and Christer Jörgensen

Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945 edited by Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz, with an introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg; translated from the German by Roland Winter, Krista Smith, and Mary Beth Friedrich

Talking All the Way

May 15, 2003

Winston Churchill by John Keegan

Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. by John Lukacs

In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain by David Cannadine

The Magic Circle

December 5, 2002

The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933 by Amos Elon

Hitler’s Pal

October 24, 2002

Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest, translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring

Whose War Is It?

October 10, 2002

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen

The Art of War: War and Military Thought by Martin van Creveld

Great Scots!

September 26, 2002

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman

‘A Very Strange Machine’

April 25, 2002

Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine by Patrick Wright

Racing with the Moon

December 20, 2001

Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel by Douglas Botting

Founding Father

November 1, 2001

Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany by Charles Williams

Keeping Germany Fat

September 20, 2001

The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews by Harold James

Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain’s Economic and Financial Relations with Germany, 1931–1939 by Neil Forbes, with a foreword by Richard Overy

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black

The X-Files

April 12, 2001

The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the US Army Joseph W. Bendersky

“Communazis”: FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers Alexander Stephan

Fate & the Führer

November 2, 2000

Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh

The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 by Pierre Ayçoberry, Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd

Not Wholly Holy

August 10, 2000

Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro

The Passion Play 2000: Oberammergau edited by the Community of Oberammergau, with contributions by Otto Huber and Christian Stückl, photographs by Brigitte Maria Mayer

The Goethe Case

June 29, 2000

Mission Possible

December 2, 1999

A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry by Andy Marino

Surrender On Demand by Varian Fry

The End of the Golden Age

November 4, 1999

Einstein’s German World by Fritz Stern

The War Against War

June 24, 1999

Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead

The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty by Neil Belton

‘LTI’ Endures

May 6, 1999

‘Working Toward the Führer’

March 18, 1999

Germans into Nazis by Peter Fritzsche

Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw

Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Appenticeship by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Thomas Thornton

Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich by David Clay Large

Destiny in Any Case

December 3, 1998

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer, translated by Martin Chalmers

Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945 by Victor Klemperer, edited by Walter Nowojski

The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois

August 13, 1998

Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism by Carl E. Schorske

Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by Peter Gay

How to Think About the Swiss

June 11, 1998

The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine by Jean Ziegler

Hitler’s Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice by Isabel Vincent

Hitler’s Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust by Adam LeBor

Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail by Sidney Zabludoff

The Other Mann

April 9, 1998

Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 edited and with an introduction by Hans Wysling, and a foreword by Anthony Heilbut, translated by Don Reneau

The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann, edited by Helmut Peitsch, translated by Ernest Boyd, by Daniel Theisen. The German Library, Volume 64.

‘Spoils of War’

February 5, 1998

Man of the People?

November 20, 1997

The Hitler of History by John Lukacs

Among the Missing

October 9, 1997

The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property edited by Elizabeth Simpson

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World’s Greatest Works of Art by Hector Feliciano

Becoming Hitler

May 29, 1997

Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume One: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 by Saul Friedländer

Confronting the Nazi Past: New Debates on Modern German History edited by Michael Burleigh

Prophets

January 9, 1997

From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 1996-January 19, 1997. An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8,. Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Vivian B. Mann, edited by Richard I. Cohen

Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon

The Drama of Gottfried Semper

November 14, 1996

Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Harry Francis Mallgrave

The New Germany

October 31, 1996

The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany by Jane Kramer

The Devil in the Details

September 19, 1996

Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich by David Irving

‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’: An Exchange

May 23, 1996

How Hell Worked

April 18, 1996

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany by John VH Dippel

The Mann Nobody Knew

February 29, 1996

Thomas Mann: Eine Biographie by Klaus Harpprecht

Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman

Thomas Mann: A Life by Donald Prater

Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by Anthony Heilbut

Tagebücher 1954–1955 by Thomas Mann, edited by Inge Jens

In Love With Hitler

November 2, 1995

Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny

Under an Evil Star

October 5, 1995

Nazi Germany: A New History by Klaus P. Fischer

The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander

No More Parades

April 20, 1995

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan

The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert

Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914–1918 by Laurence V. Moyer, Introduction by John Keegan

Loot

November 17, 1994

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Spoils of World War II: The American Military’s Role in the Stealing of Europe’s Treasures by Kenneth D. Alford

An Inability to Mourn

July 14, 1994

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma

Looking for Order

May 12, 1994

Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

The True Believer

March 24, 1994

Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth, translated by Krishna Winston

Goebbels and ‘Der Angriff’ by Russel Lemmons

Joseph Goebbels: ein nationaler Sozialist by Ulrich Höver

Letters On Dark Times

May 13, 1993

Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926–1969 edited by Lotte Kohler, by Hans Saner, translated by Robert Kimber, by Rita Kimber

Good Germans

December 17, 1992

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich edited by David Clay Large

For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler by Victoria Barnett

German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938–1945 by Klemens von Klemperer

A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz by Giles MacDonogh

The Master Builder

June 11, 1992

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man 31–October 27, 1991 An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, July

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Michael Snodin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel by Helmut Börsch-Supan

Collection of Architectural Designs, including designs which have been executed and objects whose execution was intended by Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Reise nach England, Schottland und Paris im Jahre 1826 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, edited with an introduction and notes by Gottfried Riemann, an essay by David Bindmann

Above the Abyss

April 9, 1992

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock

Demonic Democracy

February 13, 1992

Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber by Lawrence A. Scaff

Max Weber Briefe 1906–1908 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung II, Band V) edited by M. Rainer Lepsius, edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Birgit Rudhard, by Manfred Schön

The Big Apfel

November 7, 1991

German Encounters with Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin by Katherine Roper

Berlin: Culture and Metropolis edited by Charles W. Haxthausen, edited by Heidrun Suhr

Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737–1989 by Alan Balfour

Battleground Berlin: Diaries, 1945–1948 by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, translated by Anna Boerresen

Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student’s Diary with Sketches by Hsi-Huey Liang

Up Against It: Photographs of the Berlin Wall by Leland Rice

Berlin Journal, 1989–1990 by Robert Darnton

After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin by John Borneman

Glasgow’s Glasgow

September 26, 1991

‘Glesca Belongs to Me!’

April 25, 1991

The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman

Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman

A Disaffection by James Kelman

Lean Tales by James Kelman, by Agnes Owens, by Alasdair Gray

The Burn by James Kelman

Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray

Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray

1982 Janine by Alasdair Gray

McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report by Alasdair Gray

Something Leather by Alasdair Gray

The Reich Stuff

January 31, 1991

Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa August–November 1990 an exhibition at the Deutsches Historische Museum, Berlin,

Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa catalog of the exhibition

Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 1815–1871 by Otto Pflanze

Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871–1880 by Otto Pflanze

Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 1880–1898 by Otto Pflanze

Bismarck: Das Reich in der Mitte Europas by Ernst Engelberg

Witness

December 6, 1990

Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff, translated by Jean Steinberg, foreword by George F. Kennan

Weit ist der Weg nach Osten: Berichte und Betrachtungen aus funf Jahrzehnten by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt by Marion Dönhoff, translated by Gabriele Annan

Preussen—Mass und Masslosigkeit by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

The Way to the Wall

June 28, 1990

German History, 1770-1866 (The Oxford History of Modern Europe), by James J. Sheehan

Bismarck, The White Revolutionary, Vol. I, 1815-1871, Vol. II, 1871-1898 by Lothar Gall, translated by J.A. Underwood

Bürgertum in Deutschland by Lothar Gall

Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990 by Christian Graf von Krockow

Letters to Freya, 1939-1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited and translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen

Tribune of the Republic

March 15, 1990

A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays by Theodore Draper

A New, New Reich?

January 18, 1990

A History of West Germany Volume 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963; Volume 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 1963–1988 by Dennis L. Bark, by David R. Gress

The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty edited by Peter H. Merkl

Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy by Wolfram F. Hanrieder

Die Erinnerungen by Franz Josef Strauss

Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective by Helmut Schmidt, translated by Ruth Hein

La Nation orpheline: Les Allemagnes en Europe by Anne-Marie Le Gloannec

The Germans: Rich, Bothered and Divided the fall) by David Marsh

A German Identity, 1770–1990 by Harold James

Making Way for Hitler

October 12, 1989

How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 by Donald Cameron Watt

Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 1937–1940 by William R. Rock

Der Eisbrecher: Hitler in Stalins Kalkül by Viktor Suworow

The Grand Decider

August 17, 1989

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam—The Story of America’s Rise to Power by Geoffrey Perret

The Wages of War: When America’s Soldiers Came Home—From Valley Forge to Vietnam by Richard Severo, by Lewis Milford

Technology and War: From 2000 BC to the Present by Martin van Creveld

Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression by Robert L. O'Connell

The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan

War: Ends and Means by Paul Seabury, by Angelo Codevilla

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon by Robert Jervis

The Rising Star of the German Right

June 15, 1989

Dangerous Liaisons

March 30, 1989

Der Teufelspakt: Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg by Sebastian Haffner

The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–1941 by Anthony Read, by David Fisher

Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance by Steven Merritt Miner

Facing Up to the Nazis

February 2, 1989

Withstanding Hitler in Germany: 1933–1945 by Michael Balfour

Die Hassell-Tagebücher 1938–1944: Aufzeichnungen vom anderen Deutschland by Ulrich von Hassell, revised and expanded from the manuscript by Klaus Peter Reiss, edited by Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen

Briefe an Freya, 1930–1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited by Beate Ruhm von Oppen

Robert Ley: Hitler’s Labor Front Leader by Ronald Smelser

Göring: A Biography by David Irving

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S. Maier

The Other Russian Army

November 24, 1988

Die Geschichte der Wlassow-Armee by Joachim Hoffmann

General Wlassow: Russen und Deutsche zwischen Hitler und Stalin by Sergej Fröhlich, revised and edited by Edel von Freier

Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Émigré Theories by Catherine Andreyev

Politics of a Plague

June 30, 1988

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830–1910 by Richard J. Evans

Rahel’s ‘Jewish Sofa’

May 12, 1988

Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin by Deborah Hertz

Jettchen Gebert by Georg Hermann, edited by Dr. Bernhard Kaufhold

The Art of War

April 28, 1988

The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800 by Geoffrey Parker

The Mask of Command by John Keegan

Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace by Edward N. Luttwak

The Kaiser and the Kritik

February 18, 1988

Kaiser, Hof und Staat: Wilhlem II und die deutsche Politik by John C.G. Röhl

Max Weber and German Politics: 1890–1920 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg

Max Weber zur Politik im Weltkrieg: Schriften und Reden, 1914–1918 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung 1, Band 15) edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Gangolf Hübner

Max Weber and his Contemporaries edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, edited by Jürgen Osterhammel

After the Reich

October 8, 1987

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History by Fritz Stern

The Two Germanies since 1945 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

A Voice From Germany speeches by Richard von Weizsäcker, translated by Karin von Abrams

Die Abschiedsrede [The Farewell Speech] by Willy Brandt

The Good Soldier

August 13, 1987

George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959 by Forrest C. Pogue

A Swiss Passion

June 25, 1987

Green Henry by Gottfried Keller, translated by A.M. Holt

Waldheim’s Austria

February 26, 1987

The War of the German Historians

January 15, 1987

Zweierlei Untergang: Die Zerschlagung des Deutschen Reiches und das Ende des Europäischen Judentums by Andreas Hillgruber

Dissonanzen des Fortschritts: Essays über Geschichte und Politik in Deutschland by Michael Stürmer

Nach Hitler: Der Schwierige Umgang mit Unserer Geschichte: Beiträge von Martin Broszat edited by Hermann Graml, edited by Klaus-Dietmar Henke

Nachdenken über die Deutsche Geschichte: Essays by Thomas Nipperdey

The Waldheim File

October 9, 1986

Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism by Bruce F. Pauley

Hitler’s Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945 by Evan Burr Bukey

Kurt Waldheim’s Hidden Past: An Interim Report to the President, World Jewish Congress World Jewish Congress (June 2, 1986)

Die Reichsidee bei Konstantin Frantz Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien (1944) (Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.) by Kurt Waldheim

In the Eye of the Storm: A Memoir by Kurt Waldheim

The Other Germany

September 25, 1986

German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach by Andreas Dorpalen

Bismarck, Urpreuße Und Reichsgründer by Ernst Engelberg

East Germany and Détente: Building Authority After the Wall by A. James McAdams

Geschichte Der DDR. by Hermann Weber

“Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Bruder Sein…” Die DDR Heute by Timothy Garton Ash

‘Schreibt un Farschreibt!’

April 10, 1986

The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert

The Other Holocaust: Many Circles of Hell by Bohdan Wytwycky

A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 1941–1945 by Bruno Shatyn, translated by Oscar E. Swan, with a foreword by Norman Davies

Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944 by Richard C. Lukas

Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt

The German Mystery Case

January 30, 1986

The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn, by Geoff Eley

Reflexionen Finsterer Zeit: Zwei Vorträge by Fritz Stern, by Hans Jonas

Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf

The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism by Woodruff D. Smith

Outsiders

June 13, 1985

German Jews Beyond Judaism by George L. Mosse

The German Jew: A Synthesis of Judaism and Western Civilization, 1730–1930 by H.I. Bach

Hitler Without His Diaries

July 21, 1983

Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913 by J. Sydney Jones

The Nazi Machtergreifung edited by Peter D. Stachura

The Secret Diaries of Hitler’s Doctor by David Irving

Hitler und die Endlösung: “Es ist des Führers Wunsch” of California Press next spring. by Gerald Fleming

Bradley’s Class

June 30, 1983

A General’s Life: An Autobiography by Omar N. Bradley, by Clay Blair

Mein liebes Tagebuch,

December 2, 1982

Thomas Mann: Diaries 1918-1939 selection and foreword by Hermann Kesten, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

The White Revolutionary

November 19, 1981

Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw