by zen | Feb 9, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John Dower Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 by William Shirer Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh ...
by zen | Feb 2, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski Recent cyber problems here at ZP (as well as work commitments) have left me with an enormous backlog of book-related posts and reviews with which to wade through this month, including...
by zen | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA by Randall Woods The first, was one of the works cited by Paul Cartledge in his own biography of Alexander the Great. Fox is an eminent...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ By Charles Cameron — cross-tagging some useful resources from natsec bloggers with another from a bright historian friend ] . . Daveed Gartenstein-Ross‘s Globe and Mail piece The War’s in Mali, But the Danger is International from almost a week ago gave...
by zen | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
I was going to comment on the death of the famed historian who was the Soviet Union’s most venerable and shameless apologist, but I was beaten to it in a brilliant piece by British blogger and fellow Chicago Boyz member, Helen Szamuely: A great Communist crime...
