The Living Mountain: why a second world war meditation on nature’s fragility and wonder is still relevant today
Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding ...
The Economist9d
What to read about the end of the second world war
Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...
The Spectator Australia4h
The crocodile casualties of the second world war
At the end of February, 1945 about 1,000 surviving Japanese soldiers based on Ramree Island off the coast of Arakan, a ...
Heroism and collaboration — two novels set in the dying days of the second world war
The moral anchor to the story — and a fledgling detective — is Ruth Novak, a Red Cross officer from London who sets up a refugee camp in the factory. Ruth is Jewish, from a family of Polish émigrés, ...
Comic Book Resources on MSN18h
10 Order of the Phoenix Members Who Died During the Second Wizarding War, Explained
The order was founded during the First Wizarding War, which ended with the supposed demise of Lord Voldemort in 1981. However ...
The Last Great Yiddish Novel
The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...
10 Best War Shows Based on Books, Ranked
T here are a lot of TV shows that have their roots in literature, and this comes from a wide variety of genres. Anything from ...
The Church Times3d
Why the search for truth matters more than ever
This metaphor recognises that truth isn’t a lump of gold that we simply pick up and pass on to you. We gather information and ...
Publishers Weekly3d
London Book Fair 2025: Publishers Are the World’s ‘Professional Survivors’
This year’s London Book Fair was even more bustling than the last, with a robust American contingent present. While the fair ...
Why the atomic bomb didn’t really end the Second World War
Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...
Observer Today8d
Finding love at war: Book tells woman’s story as war bride in World War II
John D’Agostino of the Dunkirk OBSERVER gave me the green light to go out and get stories of local veterans for the In Honor ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN17d
The Secret World War II History of Koh Samui, the New Setting for ‘The White Lotus’
Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO show’s latest location lurks an explosive story of Thailand’s involvement in the ...