Reviews of entire books – brochures, monographs, anthologies.
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ December 8, 2017
Erika Kounio-Amarilio, Almpertos Nar (eds.), Prophorikes martyries Hevraiōn tēs Thessalonikēs gia to Holokautōma (Oral Testimonies of the Jews from Thesssaloniki about the Holocaust), Thessaloniki: Paratērētēs 1998, 494 pages, ISBN: 978-9602609408 (newer edition: Athens: Ekdoseis Eurasia, 2015; ISBN 9786185027506, 516 pp.) Oral Testimonies of the Jews from Thessaloniki about the Holocaust. What’s this you ask? This is…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ October 8, 2017
Laurence Rees, The Holocaust: A New History, Penguin Books, 2017. Greetings dear readers, we’re back again with another episode of our lovable historian and award winner Laurence Rees, the former Creative Director of History Programmes for the BBC. (For the first episode see here). This time, we are going to have a look at his…
By Panagiotis Heliotis ∙ September 11, 2017
Laurence Rees is a well-known British historian, author of several books about World War II and National Socialism. But it was one book in particular that earned him the British Book Award for History Book: Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution (BBC Books, 2005). Did Rees deserve any such award? I will let the…
By Seamus Moriarty ∙ August 30, 2017
Rémi Perron, Révisionnisme contre complotisme. Paris: Editions Plein Soleil, 2016. 152 pp., bibliography, index. This book can be purchased at the French publisher’s website François Fradin, Notes sur l’extermino-complotisme et le révisionnisme. Rome: La Sfinge, 2016. 134 pp., bibliography, index. This book can be purchased at the French publisher’s website Abstract Holocaust revisionism is increasingly…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ March 12, 2017
In 1933, Germany’s National Socialists found themselves in command of one of the world’s most advanced states with a pressing agenda to remove Jews from the command structure of its society, along with the upper strata of lucrative professions such as law, medicine and the media. With typically German methodicality, they set about crafting a…
By Kerry R. Bolton ∙ September 5, 2016
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police. Frank McDonough. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2015). Dr. Frank McDonough, professor of international history at Liverpool John Moores University, has written a book that will be of much interest to “historical revisionists.” Like Robert N. Proctor’s Nazi War on Cancer[1] it is a revisionist work,…
By Ralph Raico ∙ May 28, 2016
In 1783 the treaty ending hostilities between Great Britain and its rebellious colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America was signed in Paris. For their part the English proclaimed that, “His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations …” – there followed the rest…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ February 18, 2016
On 1 January 2016, Mein Kampf came out of copyright. It has now been 70 years since the author’s death, and by international copyright law, legal protection for the book has expired. Thus it is perhaps a good time to reconsider and reexamine this most notorious work—and perhaps to banish some of the many myths…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ March 14, 2016
The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont. George L. Newman (translator). Random House, New York, 1994, 113 pp. In 1940, the widow Marie-Louise Osmont owned and lived in a manoir in Périers-sur-le-Dan in Normandy, France, and experienced the invasion and occupation by Germany’s Wehrmacht up-close and personally: troops encamped on her grounds and officers were bivouacked…
By Kosto Tamo ∙ March 14, 2016
In the immediate after-war period, it was widely believed that Nazi extermination camps existed in Germany and Poland. The barbaric Allied saturation bombing,[1] which had led to the collapse of the German transportation, food-distribution and medical networks, provoked a chaos exacerbated by the arrival of millions of refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion in the East….
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