In the March issue of History Today

In the March edition of History Today we look at Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into Germania, Hitler’s vast new capital of a thousand-year Reich. Roger Moorhouse's essay shows how Germania was a perfect reflection of the dark, misanthropic heart of Nazism.

Also in this issue:

- Richard Hughes uncovers the patriotic efforts of the actor and playwright Noël Coward during the Second World War;

- Tim Stanley questions President Obama's admiration for Teddy Roosevelt;

- Alex Keller tells the story of Italy’s first scientific society and its influence on the young Galileo Galilei;

- Patrick Bishop explains Churchill’s near reckless obsession with the German battleship Tirpitz;

- Kate Retford on how the royal artist Johan Zoffany destroyed his relationship with George III and Queen Charlotte;

- and Tom Holland considers Edward Gibbon’s increasing relevance to our times;

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