I should begin this review, in the spirit of full disclosure, by admitting that I know the author very slightly. Something close to 14 years ago, we were on the same press freebie: a slap-up lunch in Paris courtesy of — was it? — LBC radio. Who knows? The ignominious occasion of our acquaintance isn’t the reason I mention it: rather that, somewhere on the Eurostar under the Channel, he and I fell into a conversation about the European Union.
Sam Leith
How Hitler’s dreams came true in 1946
A review of 1946: The Making of the Modern World, by Victor Sebestyen. There aren’t many laughs, and such as there are tend to be dark
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