A.D. Harvey
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A right-wing Catholic who crushed all his rivals, Engelbert Dollfuss fought hard to maintain his young republic’s independence. A.D. Harvey looks at the life of the tiny patriot of peasant stock who stood up to Hitler and asks what might have happened had he not been assassinated during the early days of the Nazi era. Published June 10 2009
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A.D. Harvey thinks the world of academia is letting down the thousands who make Black History Month such a popular success each year. Published September 18 2008
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Published April 10 2008
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A.D. Harvey reviews a history of the Napoleonic Wars.
Published December 12 2007
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A.D. Harvey peruses the new updated version of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Published September 22 2004
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A.D. Harvey recalls the career of the Swedish king whose assassination inspired a famous opera. Published November 18 2003
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A.D. Harvey examines two histories of the remarkable story of flight.
Published October 20 2003
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A.D. Harvey celebrates the 150th birthday of The Field.
Published December 15 2002
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A.D. Harvey compares and contrasts two new books on the evolution and impact of the airship. Published April 16 2002
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A.D. Harvey assesses the role of the Soviet Air Force in the defeat of Nazism.
Published December 17 2001
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A.D. Harvey looks back a hundred years to the birth of modern local government in London - the launch-pad for many national political careers. Published June 30 1999
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Published May 31 1998
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A.D. Harvey looks at the enduring myth surrounding one of history’s ‘Great Men’, and how he dominated the nineteenth-century imagination outside France.
Published January 1 1998
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A.D. Harvey reflects on why the Great War captured the literary imagination. Published November 1 1993
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