It’s a shame that Crooked Cross isn’t better
Director Jonathan Bank is unable to do the play justice
World war ii
Friday
Monday
Trump has the resolve to defend the West
We are invited to deplore his strong actions on the border. But the overwhelming response is “This is what I voted for”
Thursday
Why German-origin Americans keep quiet about their culinary contributions
The influence on food is so widespread, and has fused so successfully with American culture, that one might forget it is there
Monday
The Einstein family atrocity
A shocking read about a World War Two tragedy
Monday
The powerful, brutal story of Polish resistance fighter Elżbieta Zawacka
In Agent Zo , Clare Mulley has written a thrilling, consistently tense page-turner
Monday
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
Monday
Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024
Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels
Wednesday
A skillful retelling of one of World War Two’s most dramatic stories
Nahlah Ayed transports the reader to World War Two as experienced by the brave SOE agents who landed behind enemy lines
On D-Day at eighty
All the sadness of lost youth hovers over Normandy
Tuesday
Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain
Dr Felix Klos is an extremely personable, highly intelligent American-Dutch historian who has undertaken much archival research, worked extremely hard and is an excellent writer. In trying to persuade us that Churchill favoured Britain joining a federal Europe, however, he comes up against several immovable obstacles. The most serious of these is that in the … Read more
