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In German-occupied Poland on a November day in 1942, a Jewish woman carrying a baby realizes an SS man is following her down the street. She catches the eye of

In German-occupied Poland on a November day in 1942, a Jewish woman carrying a baby realizes an SS man is following her down the street. She catches the eye of

In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it.

A slate of superb 20th-century histories were matched by a couple of magnificent, long-anticipated conclusions to medieval series

From soldiers to housewives, ordinary people’s stories bring alive the tragedy of the Second World War in this vivid history

Peter Englund's new book argues it was – with testimony from an eclectic cast including Vera Brittain, Sophie Scholl and Humphrey Bogart

War and the human condition. Much of human history is written in blood. During the First World War, a German soldier died every 45 seconds. French deaths were even greater. During the Battles of Verdun and the Somme, 277 soldiers died every minute. Some 20,000 British soldiers died every four days during the war’s four and a half years.

Norwegian playwright and novelist had regularly been tipped for the prize

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