Hidden History, the expulsion of the Germans after WWII: Extract from ‘Orderly and Humane’
More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers. In this exclusive extract from his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War, R. M. Douglas discusses why this hidden history of post-WWII Europe, must … 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
From Returning Soldiers to Travelling Merchants: Yale triumphs at at Longman-History Today Awards
January has been a successful month for Yale University Press, as ALAN ALLPORT’s Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War scooped the Longman – History Today Book of the Year Award. The runner-up was JAMES MATHER’s , Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World, another Yale title. The winner of the prestigious award was … Read more
Author Article by Erik Levi: Mozart and the charade of fascist culture
In Mozart and the Nazis, ERIK LEVI reveals how the Third Reich sought to further the goals of its regime by appropriating Mozart’s music to aggressively promote the supremacy of Germanic culture. But as Levi explains, tailoring the peace-loving composer’s image to suit a fascist agenda involved considerable cultural manipulation. Here the author writes about … Read more
Nature’s Copycats
Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage | Peter Forbes Now Available from Yale University Press You keep noticing things after reading Dazzled and Deceived, Peter Forbes’s cultural history of mimicry and camouflage in nature, art and warfare. Take those warning notices, telling us to stop on the road, or those signalling that there is a … Read more
