The title of Nagorski’s book, The Greatest Battle, is likely to raise eyebrows, but it shouldn’t. As he points out, the fighting around Moscow was “inarguably the largest battle between two armies of all time,” involving a total of 7 million soldiers. If casualties are the standard, the Battle of Moscow — where 1.9 million [...]

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Gentleman warrior, military genius. The legend of Erwin Rommel, the German Field Marshal who outfoxed the British in North Africa, lives on. But a new TV documentary seeks to correct that image by arguing that his victories nearly brought the Holocaust to the Middle East.
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It is the most sacred national day in Russia because victory over Nazism was a matter of national survival for the numerous peoples of the Soviet Union, as well as many others decreed “inferior” by the Nazis.
And it is the most bitter because Soviet policies had strengthened Hitler in the first place, allowing him [...]

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JERUSALEM — The number of anti-Semitism acts rose sharply across the world in 2006, with violent incidents in Britain reaching a 20-year peak, said a study published Monday.
“A sharp escalation in physical, verbal, and visual manifestations of anti-Semitism was recorded in 2006,” said the study conducted by the Stephen Roth Institute for the [...]

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Around the world, these words [Israel must be wiped off the map] — the first such declarations by a head of state since World war II — were condemned. But there also were eager apologists who said that the president was misunderstood, that, for example, he did not say “wiped off the map,” but “wiped [...]

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In his upcoming book about the horrors of the 20th century (The war of the World), the British historian Niall Ferguson has a chapter called The Pity of Peace. It is about 1938 when World war II loomed and Britain — especially and importantly Britain — did precious little to stop it. [...]

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