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Into that Darkness, by Gitta Sereny by Dorothy Rabinowitz IN 1970, the Diisseldorf court sentenced Franz Stangl to life imprisonment for his role as com- mandant
Notes on Ravel by Ned Rorem OF THOSE composers I most love, Ravel is the single one through whose sound I feel the man himself. The
Popular Culture and High Culture, by Herbert J. Gans by David Thorburn THERE are residual virtues in this slender, imperfect book that even the most critical reader cannot
The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages; The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, by Samuel Elio by Commentary Bk THE community of historians has long been ambivalent toward Samuel Eliot Morison. His scholar- ly credentials
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Vietnam: The Final Reckoning by Robert C. Tucker At last, the final reckoning in Vietnam is at hand. Barring some unforeseen and unexpected reversal, the last act in…
Was the Holocaust Predictable? by Jacob Katz Almost anyone who lived through the period of the Holocaust, observing it from either near or far, will readily testify…
Weimar: A Cultural History, 1918-1933, by Walter Laqueur by Gordon A. Craig IN A rare moment of brutal can- dor, Adolf Hitler told repre- sentatives of the press in Novem- ber 1938
