Showing posts with label fascism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fascism. Show all posts
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Air power in the World Wars: From “expensive toy” to a serious weapon

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“There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war. Well, my answer to that is that it has never been tried yet, and we sha...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

A review of the “BBC History of World War II”

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Note: This is a collection of several BBC documentaries about World War II. That is to say, it is not a unified history like  “The World at ...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

What fascism is (and why it stinks)

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Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Africa, the Middle East, and Italy

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“♪ We’re the D-Day Dodgers, out in Italy, Always on the vino, always on the spree. Eighth Army skivers and their tanks, We go to war in ties...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

A review of “Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’” (BBC)

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Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures, which I simply cannot omit. By far the most infamous episode of the twentieth cen...
Friday, September 1, 2023

A review of “The Road to War” (BBC)

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Why did World War II happen? It’s a complicated (and interesting) topic, involving causes in many different nations. Some of these involve  ...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

A review of “Mussolini: The History of Italian Fascism”

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“I have never wished anyone dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Paraphrase of defense lawyer Clarence Darrow , in ...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

A review of “War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin” (BBC)

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Note: The Russians usually refer to their own part of World War II as the “Great Patriotic War.” Some Eastern European countries use this s...
Monday, May 3, 2021

A review of Machiavelli’s “The Prince” (audiobook)

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I had read “The Prince” itself before listening to this audiobook, sometime during the winter of 2006-2007. It was in English translation ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

A review of “The Nazis: A Warning from History” (BBC)

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It seems incredible that the Nazis ever came to power. Today, they are among the most unpopular of all movements, portrayed as bad guys in m...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

A review of “Friedrich Nietzsche” (audiobook)

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“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche He was the most controversial thinker in the entire history of philo...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

A review of Bettany Hughes’ “The Spartans”

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“Athens became the seat of politeness and taste, the country of orators and philosophers. The elegance of its buildings equalled that of i...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Actually, Machiavelli WAS pro-dictatorship (and Rousseau was wrong about him)

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“I admit that, provided the subjects remained always in submission, the prince's interest would indeed be that it should be powerful, ...

Machiavelli argued that Cesare Borgia was a good ruler. (Was he?)

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“ I shall never hesitate to cite Cesare Borgia and his actions . This duke entered the Romagna with auxiliaries, taking there only French...
Friday, November 20, 2015

The Nuremberg trials: A comparison of two movies

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Warning: This post contains some disturbing pictures related to the Holocaust. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Why we allied with Soviet Russia during World War II, and then fought against it later on

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"The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[,] desirous of strengthening the ca...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

A review of “The World at War” (World War Two series)

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"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin Nevile Henderson handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we hear...