Giles Milton retells the story of the Grand Alliance as a cinematic thriller
In the hands of a less skilled writer, The Stalin Affair could easily have been rather dull
20th-century history
Monday
Friday
Amsterdam explores friendship in a complicated world
The film focuses less on overbearing ideology than on living well
Sunday
Our enemy’s enemy
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach reviewed
Friday
Berlin has always been a Faustian metropolis
A new history of east and west, best and worst
