Still A Monster

Still A Monster

A. David Moody recently completed his magisterial three-volume biography of Ezra Pound, and after roughly 2000 pages, it’s perhaps understandable that Stockholm syndrome might be playing a part in his judgments. It’s the most charitable explanation for the sheer persistent drumbeat of exculpatory lies he tells about his subject all throughout the 600 pages of Ezra Pound: Poet — Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972.

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Book Review: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich

Book Review: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich

When Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz became Nazi Germany’s Head of State on April 30, 1945, named by Hitler in his will as his successor, many of his fellow Germans and most of his Allied enemies would have asked the same simple question Barry Turner asks in his even-handed and understated new book, Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich.

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When you see me, you know me: Henry VIII: Court, Church, and Conflict by David Loades

When you see me, you know me: Henry VIII: Court, Church, and Conflict by David Loades

More than any other British monarch, he tends to make his biographers hate him. The ones who can resist must either be pitied for their blindness or cherished for their judgement.

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