by finn ballard | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog
This month, I wholeheartedly recommend Thomas Harding’s Hanns and Rudolf. In a unique double-biographical style, Harding contrasts the decisions and destinies of Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who had fled to England and served as a Lieutenant in the British...
by finn ballard | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
This month, a wholehearted double recommendation for you: Simon Winder’s Germania and Danubia, packed with anecdotes and revelations, by an author with a clear fondness for the many idiosyncrasies and oddities of Germany and Austria – and by one who shows...
by finn ballard | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog
A book that is more than deserving of its bestseller status, Norman Ohler’s ‘Blitzed’ is an examination of drug addiction in Nazi Germany. The book’s real fascination lies not in its graphic depiction of Hitler’s long-suspected habits,...
by finn ballard | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog
‘The Kaiser’s Holocaust’, by David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen, exposes the long-ignored history of the German Empire’s colony in modern-day Namibia and the mass murder, first officially acknowledged as a genocide by Germany in 2015, of the...
