Book Reviews 
War reading list: Kurt Vonnegut(0)
War is often the backdrop for some of the very best art and literature produced. Many writers choose to try and get across anti-war messages in their work and few have done that with such incredible effect as Kurt Vonnegut.
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse Five has as its main subject the bombing of Dresden in […]
Essential Reading : Josef Stalin
Explaining the internal workings of a dictator and a mass murderer is nigh on impossible. Yet, the following texts have given historians the greatest insight in to the man who killed more of his own people than anyone else in history.
1. Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
2. Stalin: Triumph […]
Essential Reading - The Russian Revolutions
Essential Reading : The Russian Revolutions.
The following texts are essential reading for anybody hoping to understand the reasons for, execution of and the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
Much of the political theory and objectives of groups opposed to Tsarism are complex, and at times contradictory – these texts help to clarify these and […]
Essential Reading : Nazi Germany
In addition to providing theoretical analysis on the events which shaped world history between 1870-1945, we also aim to provide you with an indepth historiography of the period.
As a general introduction we have compiled an some essential reading lists which are well regarded as authoratitive texts.
Our first offering centres on Nazi Germany. There have been […]