Publications

Review of Patrick Salmon et al. (eds.), Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII””: German Unification 1989-1990

(London, FCO/Routledge, 2010), in Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 52-53.

‘The Road to Slaughter’. Review of Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War

(Belknap Press, Harvard UP, 2011), in The New Republic: The Book (online, 5 December 2011).

‘Spot and Sink’. Review of David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2011), in The London Review of Books, 33/24 (15 December 2011), pp. 31-2.

‘The killing machine’. Review of Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

(Oxford University Press, 2011), in The New Statesman, 19 December 2011-1 January 2012, pp. 80-1.

Review of David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon, The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth Century England

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), in The Independent, 19 December 2011.

‘Gruesomeness is my policy’ Review of Sebastian Conrad, German Colonialism: A Short History

(Cambridge University Press, 2011), in London Review of Books 34/3 (9 February 2012), pp. 35-7.

‘Führer fictions’. Review of A. N. Wilson, Hitler: A Short Biography

(Harper Press, 2012), in The New Statesman 12 March 2012, pp. 45-47.

‘What can we do in times like these?” Review of Uta Gerhardt and Thomas Karlauf (eds.), The Night of Broken Glass

(Polity Press, 2012), in The Guardian, Review Section, 14 April 2012, p. 7.

‘Food Fights’. Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War

(Penguin Press, New York, 2012) in The Nation, 16 April 2012, pp. 27-32.

‘Defeat Out of Victory’. Review of David Stahel, Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East

(Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The New Republic: The Book, 26 April 2012.

‘Nothing They Wouldn’t Do’. Review of Harold James, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firmi

(Princeton UP, 2012), in The London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 12 (21 June 2012), pp. 21-24.

‘The Other Horror.’ Review of R.M.Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War

(Yale University Press), in The New Republic: The Book, 25 June 2012.

‘Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland’.

The Guardian, Review, Saturday 27th August 2012.

‘The Life and Death of a Capital’. Review of Thomas Friedrich, Hitler’s Berlin: Abused City

(Yale University Press), in The New Republic: The Book (27 September 2012).

‘The Truth About World War II’.

Review of Antony Beevor, The Second World War (Little, Brown) and Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General (Random House), in The New York Review of Books LIX/15 (11 October, 2012), pp. 52-56. German edition (Beevor only) in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30 September 2014.

‘Keeping history on the straight and narrow’. Review of J. H. Elliott, History in the Making

(Yale University Press, 2012), in The New Statesman, 11 October 2012.

‘When times were terrible’. Review of Halik Kochanski, The Eagle Unnbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2012), in The Guardian, Saturday 10 November 2012.

Prophet in a Tuxedo’. Review of Shulamit Volkov, Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman (

Yale UP, 2012), in The London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 22 (22 November 2012), pp. 20-22.

Conspicuous consumption’. Review of Helen Bynum: Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (OUP),

in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 December 2012, pp. 40-41.

‘An unremittingly dull history of World War Two’. Review of Norman Stone: World War Two: A Short History

(Allen Lane, 2012), in The New Statesman, 24 January 2013, p. 44.

‘Kisses for the Duce.’ Review of Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy

(Bodley Head, 2012), and Paul Corner, The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford University Press, 2012), in The London Revoew of Books, Vol. 35, No. 3 (7 February 2013), pp. 6-8. German translation, ‘Küsse für den Duce’, Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, Vol. 87, No. 7 (July 2013), pp. 633-40.

‘Thank you, Dr Morell.’ Review of Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, Was Hitler Ill?

(Polity, 2012), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, number 4 (21 February 2013), p. 37.

Review of Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers

(Yale UP, 2012), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21-27 February 2013, p. 53.

Review of Eric Hobsbawm, Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

(Little, Brown 2013), in The Guardian, online 20 March 2013, Guardian Review 23 March 2013, p. 7.

‘Marx v. The Rest’. Review of Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

(Norton, New York, 2013), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, Number 10 (23 May, 2013), pp. 17-20.

Review of Brendan Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy. 1453 to the Present

Present (Penguin/Allen Lane 2013), in The Guardian, review section, 25 May 2013.

‘A middle-class revolt? It was the Depression and not rampant inflation that drove German voters into the arms of the Nazis.’

Review of Frederick Taylor, The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class (Bloomsbury, 2013), in Prospect, September 2013, pp. 70-72.

‘Snip and wheel. The shock of an execution – for its sixteenth-century spectators and for readers of the executioner’s diary’

Review of Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner. Life and death, honour and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century (Bodley Head, 2013), in The Times Literary Supplement, 6 September 2013, pp. 3-4.

‘Autoerotisch’. Review of The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle

by Bernhard Rieger (Harvard University Press, 2013), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, no. 17 (12 September, 2013), pp. 35-37.

‘The staggering inaccuracy of bombs’. Review of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

by Richard Overy (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2013), in The Guardian, Saturday Review, 28 September 2013, p. 9.

‘Bloodbath before dawn’. Review of Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising, by Alexandra Richie (William Collins, 2013), and Year Zero: A History of 1945

by Ian Buruma (Atlantic Books, 2013), in The New Statesman, 18-24 October 2013, pp. 40-41.

‘What the War Was Really About’. Review of Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

by Paul Kennedy (Random House, 2013), in The New York Review of Books, LX/19 (5 December, 2013), pp. 50-54. See also exchange of letters inNYRB LXI/2 (6 February 2014), p. 44.

‘Disorderly Cities’. Review of A Blessing in Disguise; War and Town Planning in Europe, 1939-45

edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow (DOM, 2013), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 35, No. 23 (5 December 2013), pp. 27-29.

‘No Sarajevo, no Sobibór?’ review of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I.

By Richard Ned Lebow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9-15 January 2014, p. 50.

‘Neither forgotten nor forgiven’. Review of 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning

by Slavko Goldstein (New York Review Books, 2013), in The Guardian, review section, 18 January 2014, p. 8.

‘The Conspiracists’. Review of Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery

by Benjamin Carter Hett (Oxford University Press, 2014), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 36, No. 9 (8 May 2014), pp. 3-9.

‘Was Stalinism worse than nazism?’. Review of The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

by Roger Moorhouse (Bodley Head, 2014), in The Guardian, 9 August 2014, Review Section, p. 6.

Review of Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

by Bettina Stangneth, in The Guardian, 18 October 2014, Review Section, p. 6.

‘A Tory rogue elephant. An account of “one man who made history” by another who seems just to make it up’. Review of The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

by Boris Johnson (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014), in The New Statesman, 7-14 November 2014, pp. 48-49.

‘”Equality exists in Valhalla”’. Review of Neil MacGregor, Germany: Memories of a Nation

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2014, in London Review of Books, 36/23 (4 December 2014), pp. 37-39.

‘Hitler’s Artists’. Review of Jonathan Petropoulos, Artists under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi

(Yale UP, 2014), in The Sunday Times: Culture, 1 February 2015, p. 44.

Review of Timothy W Ryback, Hitler’s First Victims: And One Man’s Race for

(Bodley Head, 2015), in The Guardian, review section, 14 March 2015, p. 7.

‘Beyond the call of duty’. Review of Charles: The Heart of a King, by Catherine Mayer

Mayer (W H Allen, 2015), in The New Statesman, 10-16 April 2015, pp. 46-7.

Review of Gavriel Rosenfeld, Hi Hitler!

(Cambridge UP, 2015), in The Guardian, Review section, 2 May 2015, p. 9.

Review of Peter Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography

(Bodley Head, 2015), in Prospect, June 2015, pp. 48-51.

‘The Anatomy of Hell’. Review of Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Concentration Camps

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); Kim Wünschmann, Before Auschwitz (Harvard UP, 2015); Sarah Helm, Ravensbrück (Doubleday, 2915); Elissa Mailänder, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence Michigan State UP, 2015); Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps (Yale UP, 2015); and Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkeimer, Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2014), in The New York Review of Books, Vol. LXII number 12, 9 July 2015, pp. 52-54.

Review of Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

(Bodley Head, 2015), in The Guardian Review section, 12 September 2015, p. 8.

Review of James Holland, The War in the West – A New History, Vol. I: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

(Bantam Press, 2015), in The Mail on Sunday, 25 October 2015, Event supplement, p. 31.

‘These people are intolerable’. Review of Pierpaolo Barbieri, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War

(Harvard University Press, 2015), in The London Review of Books, 37/21 (5 November 2015), pp. 39-42.

‘When to say the hardest word’. Review of Ashraf Rushdy, A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past

(Temple University Press, 2015), in Times Higher Education, 19-25 November 2015, p. 46.

‘Ink Flowed Like Blood’. Review of Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind

(translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms, Yale University Press, 2015), in The Wall Street Journal, Saturday 28 November 2015.

‘Lobbying’. Review of Karina Urbach, Go-Betweens for Hitler

(Oxford University Press, 2015), in London Review of Books Vol 38, No. 6 (17 March 2016), pp. 35-37.

Review of The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

(William Collins, 2016), in The Guardian review section, 8 May 2016.

Review of Philippe Sands, East West Street

On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2015) and A. T. Williams

‘Your Soft German Heart’.

Review of Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45

Introduction

Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 39

‘Prostitution, State and Society in Imperial Germany’

Past and Present 70 (February, 1976)

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914

1 Sept. 2016

German Women and the Triumph of Hitler

Journal of Modern History, Vol. 48

Red Wednesday in Hamburg: Social Democrats, Police and Lumpenproletariat in the Suffrage Disturbances of 17 January 1906

Social History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1979)

German Social Democracy and Women’s Suffrage, 1891-1918

Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 15

Bourgeois Feminists and Women Socialists in Germany 1894-1914: Lost Opportunity or Inevitable Conflict?

Women's Studies International Quarterly

Rethinking the German Past

West European Politics

Theory and Practice in German Social Democracy 1880-1914: Clara Zetkin and the Socialist Theory of Women’s Emancipation

History of Political Thought

The Myth of Germany’s Missing Revolution

New Left Review

Epidemics and Revolutions: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Past and Present 120 (August, 1988)

Justice Seen, Justice Done? Abolishing Public Executions in 19th-Century Germany

History Today, Vol. 46

Folter: Geschichte und Gegenwart

1999: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 19

Germany’s Convict Exports

History Today, Vol. 47

Redesigning the Past: History in Political Transitions

Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38

Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany

Proceedings of the British Academy 151 (2006)

What is European History? Reflections of a Cosmopolitan Islander

European History Quarterly

The Journal of Contemporary History and it Editors

Journal of Contemporary History

‘Response’ [to comments on Altered Pasts, Journal of the philosophy of history 10

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm

The Third Reich in History and Memory

February 2015

Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History

February 2014

Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent

May 2009

The Third Reich at War 1939-1945

October 2008

The Third Reich in Power 1933-1939

October 2005

The Coming of the Third Reich

Octorber 2003

Lying about Hitler. History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial

February 2001

The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History

July 1988

Tales from the German Underworld. Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century

March 1998

In Defence of History

September 1997

Rereading German History. From Unification to Reunification 1800-1996

September 1997

Rituals of Retribution. Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987

March 1996

The German Bourgeoisie. Essays on the social history of the German middle class from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century

February 1991

Proletarians and Politics. Socialism, Protest and the Working Class in Germany before the First World War

November 1990

In Hitler’s Shadow. West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past

August 1989

Kneipengesprache im Kaiserreich. Die Stimmungsberichte der Hamburger Politschen Polizei 1892-1914

June, 1989

Rethinking German History: Nineteenth-century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich

October 1987

Comrades and Sisters: Feminism, Socialism and Pacifism in Europe, 1870-1945

June 1987

The German Unemployed: Experiences and Consequences of Mass Unemployment from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich

January 1987

The German Peasantry. Conflict and Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

January 1986

The German Working Class 1888-1933; The Politics of Everyday Life (Editor)

January 1982

The German Family

March 1981

Sozialdemokratie und Frauenemanzipation im Deutschen Kaiserreich (translated by W.G. Sebald;

October 1979

Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (Editor)

February 1978

The Feminists Women’s Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia 1840-1920

October 1977

The Feminist Movement in Germany 1894-1933

October 1976