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Heroic long-suffering

25 June 2011
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain Adam Hochschild

Macmillan, pp.448, 20

English patriotism was still a force in 1914. On the first day of the war, my mother’s three brothers, and my father and his two brothers, all joined up together,… Read more

Brave on occasion

27 November 2010
Hitler's First War Thomas Weber

OUP, pp.416, 18.99

Hitler’s experiences in the Great War have long been shrouded in mystery and controversy, not least because there is relatively little material from that time written by himself. Hitler’s experiences… Read more