Author Article by Evan Mawdsley: Countdown To Global War, Part Four – Pearl Harbor and the ‘Day of Infamy’
In the fourth part in our series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses the pivotal events which took place seventy years ago today. Mawdsley puts the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in global context, focusing on crucial events in Asia and Europe that also took place surrounding December 7, the ‘Day of Infamy’. Article … Read more
Author Article By Evan Mawdsley: Countdown To Global War, Part Two – 5 November 1941
In the second in our three-part series Countdown to Global War, Evan Mawdsley, author of December 1941 discusses two pivotal and fateful decisions that were made on November 5 1941, seventy years ago tomorrow. Mawdsley examines Japan’s decision to make preparations for war with Britain and the US, and Hitler’s decision to let the German … Read more
Author Article by Evan Mawdsley: Countdown to Global War, Part One – 18 October 1941
December 1941 by historian Evan Mawdsley is an account of twelve days when interlinked events—including the Battle of Moscow, the Pearl Harbor raid and Hitler’s declaration of war on America—decided the outcome of a war and changed the course of a century. In a new three-part series on this blog, the author presents a Countdown … Read more
Jeffrey Herf’s ‘Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World’ has won the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf has won the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize, awarded by the German Studies Association. Herf’s groundbreaking history connects Nazi Germany’s Arabic-language propaganda during World War II to anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the decades since. Today we take a look at this prizewinning book. It has been … Read more
Portrait of a Monster: New book from Yale explores the life and death of ‘Hitler’s Hangman’ Reinhard Heydrich
Hitler’s Hangman (published this month) is the chilling full biography of Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’. One of the most dangerous men in the Third Reich, Heydrich commanded the SS Security Service, the Gestapo and the Nazi Criminal Police; organized the SS killing squads; and helped plan the ‘Final Solution’. Today we look at this … Read more
