No Laughing Matter
/In Timur Vermes’s bestselling novel, newly translated from the German, it’s 2011, the Führer is back, and he’s not happy at how the world has changed. Is it OK to find that funny?
Read MoreBook Review: KL
/The sprawling system of concentration camps established by the Nazis gets its first comprehensive history
Read MoreBook Review: Ravensbruck
/In 1939 the Nazis established their only concentration camp specifically for women; a comprehensive new book tells the history of Ravensbruck
Read MoreBook Review: Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination
/It's well known that Hitler looked to Mussolini's success in Italy as a model for his own fascism, but a fascinating new book details the lesser-known fact that Hitler had another model as well - an earlier and more exotic one.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Heinrich Himmler
/The authoritative new biography - now in an enormous paperback - of the architect of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution"
Read MoreBook Review: The Taste of War
/A new book looks at the foremost weapon in war's arsenal: food.
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Berlin
/Now in English: a richly researched and deeply moving history of the capital of the Third Reich.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?
/A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.
Read MoreA Jester During the Third Reich
/Irmgard Keun depicted exceptionally naive women and seemed even to play the the role herself, even suing The Gestapo for banning her books. But was there a strategy behind playing dumb?
Read MoreEdward the Last
/When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.
Read MoreBook Review: Exorcising Hitler
/A new history examines the problems the Allies faced when they took on the job of occupying a defeated Germany in 1945.
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