Publications
‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview of Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers
(Yale UP, 2012), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21-27 February 2013, p. 53.
Continue readingReview 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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview 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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview of Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
by Bettina Stangneth, in The Guardian, 18 October 2014, Review Section, p. 6.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘”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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview 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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview of Gavriel Rosenfeld, Hi Hitler!
(Cambridge UP, 2015), in The Guardian, Review section, 2 May 2015, p. 9.
Continue readingReview of Peter Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography
(Bodley Head, 2015), in Prospect, June 2015, pp. 48-51.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview of Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
(Bodley Head, 2015), in The Guardian Review section, 12 September 2015, p. 8.
Continue readingReview 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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue reading‘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.
Continue readingReview 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.
Continue readingReview of Philippe Sands, East West Street
On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2015) and A. T. Williams
Continue reading‘Your Soft German Heart’.
Review of Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45
Continue reading‘Prostitution, State and Society in Imperial Germany’
Past and Present 70 (February, 1976)
Continue readingRed Wednesday in Hamburg: Social Democrats, Police and Lumpenproletariat in the Suffrage Disturbances of 17 January 1906
Social History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1979)
Continue readingGerman Social Democracy and Women’s Suffrage, 1891-1918
Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 15
Continue readingBourgeois Feminists and Women Socialists in Germany 1894-1914: Lost Opportunity or Inevitable Conflict?
Women's Studies International Quarterly
Continue readingEpidemics and Revolutions: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Past and Present 120 (August, 1988)
Continue readingJustice Seen, Justice Done? Abolishing Public Executions in 19th-Century Germany
History Today, Vol. 46
Continue readingRedesigning the Past: History in Political Transitions
Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38
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The Third Reich in History and Memory
In this fascinating and enlightening collection of...
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What is European History? Reflections of a Cosmopolitan Islander
European History Quarterly
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