Nigel Jones
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Nigel Jones reviews a first-rate account of the rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky |
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As Europe polarised between Right and Left in the 1930s, many artists and authors nailed their reputations to either extreme. Others, says Nigel Jones, took refuge in the ‘inner emigration’ of silence. Even in stable Britain, writers felt compelled to take a stand – often in the service of the secret state.
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Nigel Jones reviews a fitting tribute to the British Tommy in this oral history of the last year of the First World War.
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Nigel Jones explores a book on a First World War poet.
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Adam Zamoyski’s latest book about his ancestral homeland tells of a brief, largely forgotten, exception to the melancholy catalogue of Polish defeats. |
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Nigel Jones reviews a book on Cold War history by Patrick Wright. |
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Why is the sordid murder of Horst Wessel, a young Nazi storm troop leader in Berlin in early 1930, so important? Nigel Jones recalls his death and the black legend that sprang from it. |
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A review of the latest book on how war is remembered from Jay Winter.
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Nigel Jones reviews a work on the Great War. |
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Richard Ollard
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Marie Peters
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Wolfgang Sofsky
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John Morrill
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