Category: <span>Book reviews</span>

Category: Book reviews

“Deserters” review

by Lars G. PeterssonDanish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2005also published as “Hitlers Fahnenflüchtige”, chipmunkapublishing, 2012 Annette Bygott In Germany during World War II, a careless remark, an anti-war entry in a diary, a kind gesture towards a Russian prisoner – all could be viewed as ‘aiding the enemy’ and prove fatal. …

“Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: the Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat” review

Andrew BrownOxford University Press, 2011 Brian Heale Much of this book reads like a nightmare. Joseph Rotblat’s early life in Poland seems almost idyllic, of another world. The First World War soon destroyed this, and the consequences for his family were extreme hardship and threat to life. But Rotblat’s unusual …