Book review: Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters - When Covid ruled us
It’s hard to disagree with human rights lawyer Adam Wagner when he writes in his new book that 'British society became as close to a police state as in living memory' when coronavirus struck
Book review: The Story of Russia - Russia’s story always excluded Jews
Orlando Figes' new work is a truly incisive and important dissection of this country's troubled past
Our battle to tell the world about Babyn Yar
Widow, 89, reveals how the pair unveiled the full, uncensored story of the massacre to the world
Book review: The English GI - A soldier’s graphic story
Moving story told in pictures mixing maps, drawings and moving family photographs
Book review: Józef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland - Modern Poland’s forgotten founder
A detailed, absorbing book that peels back the complexities of histories to reclaim this figure for a new generation
Jewish literature is rich with very English irony
From the transformation of Dickens' Fagin from contemptible villain to genial personality of the musical stage, the history of Jews and fiction has seen plenty of twists and turns
Book review: The Daughter of Auschwitz - Tova's miracle
The horrors of the Holocaust brought shudderingly to life from the point of view of a small child who could barely read or recognise numbers
Book review: Clouds over Paris - the banal life of an occupier
Fascinating chronicle of the Nazi-occupied French capital shows how the most everyday issues seem more important than the biggest historical issues of the day
Did The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas need a sequel?
Critics attacked John Boyne's 2006 novel for obscuring the historical reality of the Holocaust. Now he's back with a follow-up
Book review: Maror - The bitter taste of Israel’s inky heart of darkness
Tidhar's blockbuster work shows us the thieves, the tramps, the prostitutes, the violence, filth and corruption underlying the good behind the Zionist dream
Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master
A gripping chronicle of Soviet life in wartime and an indispensable companion piece to the author's other works
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV review: Hamishe dwarves …but what’s it all about?
Amazon's blockbuster production is as close as television gets to the cinematic but after two episodes, for all the superb special effects, acting, music and costumes, we are left wondering where this journey is taking us
Highgate headstone at last for Babyn Yar author Anatoly Kuznetsov
Donations poured in after an appeal was launched last month to raise £2,000 to memorialise the last resting place of the man who wrote about the mass slaughter of Jews in Ukraine
Book review: The Last Colony - A long fight to allow a people to return home
Renowned international barrister Philippe Sands returns with the story of how the entire local population of the Chagos archipelago were uprooted by a 1960s lease deal between Britain and the US
Book review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - The monster who hid from justice
A dark and disgusting story of how Germans, Catholics and Americans helped countless Nazis find refuge during the Cold War, including some of the most infamous figures from the Holocaust
Not Safe For Work Book review: Playing the Hollywood game
Engaging adult debut set in Obama-era America is undeniably informed by the Harvey Weinstein scandal
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