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Daniel Lee: D-Day and After, 3 April 2025

Normandy: The Sailors’ Story 
by Nick Hewitt.
Yale, 433 pp., £12.99, March, 978 0 300 28109 5
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D-Day, the Oral History: The Turning Point of World War Two by the People Who Were There 
by Garrett M. Graff.
Monoray, 448 pp., £14.99, March, 978 1 80096 219 4
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... Western Europe: German beach defences had been neutralised and nearly 160,000 troops were on shore.Garrett Graff’s​ D-Day, the Oral History brings together excerpts of accounts from more than six hundred people – interviewed mainly in the 1980s – who lived through the invasion. Some of the most striking are from those who didn’t bear arms. The ...

Hate Burst Out

Kim Phillips-Fein: Chicago, 1968, 15 August 2024

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 
by Luke A. Nichter.
Yale, 370 pp., £35, October 2023, 978 0 300 25439 6
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... campaigning to retain the presidency: ‘I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office.’) Trump’s denunciations of academia, liberals and protesters echoes Wallace’s angry rhetoric. And students are again protesting about American ...

House-Cleaning

David Bromwich: I met a Republican, 7 March 2019

... United States.New York​ bankers ‘always knew the Trumps were dirty’, a retired banker told me. If they owed 10 per cent on a collapsed enterprise, they would leave the investors holding the bag. Appropriately, the financial forensics analyst Andrew Weissmann was among the first appointments Mueller announced. In November, a police raid on the Deutsche ...

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