Soviet Union
Poland in the Darkness of World War II
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War By Halik Kochanski (Harvard University Press, 734 pp., $35) The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery By Witold Pilecki translated by Jarek Garliński (Aquila Polonica, 460 pp., $34.95) READ MORE >>
How Human Rights Became our Ideology
The International Human Rights Movement: A History By Aryeh Neier (Princeton University Press, 379 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm (Pantheon, 627 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
Russia’s Wild Fantasies of an All-Powerful State Department
Buckraking Around the World With Tony Blair
Baathism: An Obituary
Dinesh D’Souza’s Dreams of Obama
Keeping Our Heads
The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany By Tomaz Jardim (Harvard University Press, 276 pp., $29.95) Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953 By Hiroaki Kuromiya (University of Toronto Press, 212 pp., $60) All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals By David Scheffer (Princeton University Press, 533 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
Spree-Killing Do's And Don'ts
In 1951 the United States government responded to nuclear testing in the Soviet Union by scaring schoolchildren half to death with a short educational film called Duck And Cover. The film is roundly mocked today, but it's a model of practical advice compared to Run. Hide. Fight., a short educational film funded with a $200,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Defense and produced by the Houston mayor's office. READ MORE >>
