Mark Mazower

Eric Hobsbawm: Clear, Inclusive, Lasting

Eric Hobsbawm’s works themselves are his memorial. What is there to learn from his biography?

The Man Who Was France

“Even the French who found themselves in England did not rush to accept de Gaulle: to the contrary, this remote and chilly figure lunching alone at the Savoy appealed to few of them, and most of the troops who had been evacuated from France that summer eventually made their way back across the Channel and regarded Pétain as the legitimate head of the French government.”

An Archive of Atrocities

‘Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide’ by Taner Akçam

Fizz and Crackle

The Historian Who Was Not Baffled by the Nazis