WW2 Relevance

|   21 December 2012

The Danes and the Jews

Copenhagen, capital of Denmark I was recently in Copenhagen and had cause to think once again about the extraordinary history of the Danes and the Jews in World War Two. Denmark is about the only country in Europe that emerges with credit from the horror of the Holocaust. A brave effort by the Danes allowed […]

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WW2History.com News

|   30 October 2012

Transmission date for Hitler series

Lots of people have been asking me when my new TV series will transmit. And I at last I have news. ‘The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler’ will start transmitting  on BBC2 at 9.00 pm on Monday 12 November. Episode 2 transmits on 19 November and Episode 3 on 26 November. Meantime the book I […]

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WW2History.com News

|   12 September 2012

Following Hitler

My new book, The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler, is now available in bookshops and online – though the BBC TV series I’ve made based on the book won’t transmit until later in the autumn, with the exact date soon be confirmed. And I mark the occasion with a couple of thoughts about this famous […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   29 July 2012

My new book

It’s been a while since I last posted, and this is the reason why. I’ve been hard at it finishing the proofs of my new book – The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions into the Abyss – which is published in September. It addresses a question I have been fascinated by for as […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   24 June 2012

Optimism and History

Should knowledge of history make us optimistic or pessimistic? I was interviewed on the Today programme on Radio 4 this week, and the closing words I spoke seem to have troubled a few of my friends. I was asked by the presenter, John Humphrys, whether I felt knowing history should make us optimistic or pessimistic […]

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WW2 Reviews

|   4 June 2012

Beevor’s brilliant new book

Antony Beevor is not just one of the finest historians of the last fifty years, he is one of the finest writers. His book on Stalingrad transformed historical narrative writing when it was published in the late 1990s and this latest volume – his overview of the Second World War – is a masterly summary […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   26 May 2012

Greece and a warning from history

Greece – a country in real danger Two years ago, in the first blog I ever wrote for WW2History.com, I talked about my visit to Athens in April 2010 and my fears for the future of Greece. I said that we should all remember that the rise to power of Hitler was only made possible […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   15 May 2012

Austria’s dilemma is the world’s

Statue of Karl Lueger in Karl Lueger Platz, Vienna I was in Vienna a few days ago, filming for my next TV series, and witnessed Austrians wrestling with a dilemma about history that affects us all. The city authorities have just decided that a stretch of the historic inner road around the centre of Vienna […]

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WW2 Competitions

|   3 May 2012

Hitler’s favourite city

Hitler’s favourite city today Congratulations to Mr Petrides of Kent who was the first person picked at random from those people who who got the answer right to the question in our spring competition: what was Hitler’s favourite city? The answer was Munich in Bavaria. This ‘German’ city wrote Hitler in Mein Kampf, that he […]

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WW2History.com News

|   29 April 2012

WW2History is free!

We are all incredibly pleased to announce that WW2History.com is now free to the world! I thank all of the thousands of subscribers who have supported the site for the last two years and look forward to welcoming many more people to WW2History.com.

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