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Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat

By Mike Phelps
August 12, 2024
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Giles Milton has written a true-life thriller about one of the darkest periods in history. Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a fascinating account of the exploits of a band of colorful characters. Men and women with particular experience and skills were recruited by the British...

Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz

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By Mike Phelps
August 6, 2024
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On the final page of her book, author Lauren Arrington, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, quotes poet Louise Bogan referring to Ireland: “It’s not a country it’s a neurosis” 276. For many people, this sentiment is an accurate, if...

Cleopatra: A Life

Cleopatra Politics Reviews

By Mike Phelps
July 21, 2024
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We are told not to judge a book by its cover. In this case, however, Stacy Schiff chose an appropriate image for her work. Almost in shadow, an elegant woman is looking away from the viewer. Indeed, the face of the last ruler of Egypt...

Marcus Aurelius: A Life

Marcus Aurelius Politics Reviews

By Mike Phelps
June 27, 2024
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Most people’s knowledge of Marcus Aurelius, the 2nd-century Roman emperor, is limited to Richard Harris’ magnificent on-screen portrayal of him in the 2000 Academy Award-winning film “Gladiator.” Although the aging emperor only appears in the film briefly, two things are evident: Marcus Aurelius was a reluctant warrior...

Enigmas: Alan Turing and the Codebreakers of the World Wars

Alan Turing Mathematics Reviews

By Mike Phelps
June 3, 2024
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The British were able to keep their codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park secret for decades after the end of World War II. David Boyle’s Enigmas comprises three short, complimentary books that combine to give readers a brief but thorough look at the origins and development...

Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biography

Napoleon Bonaparte Politics Reviews

By Mike Phelps
May 26, 2024
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Writer and commentator Dennis Prager has often argued that people who see themselves as victims are responsible for a lot of the evil committed in the world. What better examples of victims wreaking havoc on the world than Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte? Victims are...

Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian World View

Adolf Hitler Biology Charles Darwin Politics Reviews

By Mike Phelps
January 23, 2024
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Untangling the cause and effect relationships embedded in historical events can be a complicated endeavor. This is especially true when complex questions of ethics, science, and race are part of the discussion. This is what Jerry Bergman attempts in his densely packed work, Hitler and the Nazi...

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler

Politics Reviews

By Mike Phelps
December 20, 2023
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The essence of Philip Ball’s book, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, is a cautionary tale of how even the best and brightest among us are just as prone to weakness. He sets the stage early on explaining the situation...

Kierkegaard: A Single Life

Philosophy Reviews Søren Kierkegaard

By Mike Phelps
November 18, 2023
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We often think of philosophers as esoteric men with beards and robes who remain above the fray. But this is how we come to think of them only after they are gone and all that remains are their words. As Stephen Backhouse’s Kierkegaard: A Single Life...

Freud: An Intellectual Biography

Psychology Reviews Sigmund Freud

By Mike Phelps
November 6, 2023
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In this book, author Joel Whitebook offers historian Salo Barron’s notion that if someone of Doctor Sigmund Freud’s stature wrote a book like Moses and Monotheism, there “must be something worth considering in it.” Freud: An Intellectual Biography is also something worth considering. Whitebook, who is...

Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat

Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz

Cleopatra: A Life

Marcus Aurelius: A Life

Enigmas: Alan Turing and the Codebreakers of the World Wars

Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biography

Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian World View

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler

Kierkegaard: A Single Life

Freud: An Intellectual Biography

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