2012

The Spanish Holocaust

Prologue The Origins of Hatred and Violence Social War Begins, 1931-1933 Theorists of Extermination The Right Goes on the Offensive, 1933-34 The Coming of War, 1934-1936 Institutionalized Violence in the Rebel Zone Queipo’s Terror: The Purging of the South Mola’s Terror: The Purging of Navarre, Galicia, Castile and Léon The Consequence of the Coup: Spontaneous …

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Not I

Foreword How Everything Comes Together The World Falls Apart Even if All Others Do Just Don’t Get Sentimental Leave-takings Alien Worlds Friends and Enemies Of the Soldier’s Life and of Dying The Escape Not Home Yet Restrospect and a Few Leaps Ahead Postscript

Hitler

‘In that Hour it Began’ ‘Our Leader’ My Struggle The Politics of Catastrophe ‘A Simple Cowherd can Become a Cardinal’ Old Surehand The Road to War War Lord The Final Solution Defeat The Bunker Final Verdict

The Journey’s End Battalion

From Sussex to the Somme, August 1914-September 1916 Call to Arms, August 1914-August 1915 Loos, September 1915 Recovery, October 1915-March 1916 Wulverghem, March-July 1916 Somme-Guillemont and Delville Wood, August-September 1916 Through Attrition to Final Victory, September 1916-November 1918 Return to Loos, September-December 1916 A Hard Winter, January-April 1917 Messines and Pilckem Ridge, April-September 1917 Before …

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On Writing

First Foreword Second Foreword Third Foreword C.V. Toolbox On Writing On Living: A Postscript And Furthermore, Part I: Door Shut, Door Open And Furthermore, Part II: A Booklist And Furthermore, Part III

Empire Antarctica

Preface – A Glimpse from the Ice Imagining Antarctica The Axis of the Atlantic Of Kings and Emperors Antarctica at Last! High Days and Holidays The Hinge of the Continent Waiting for Winter Darkness and Light Midwinter The Third Quarter The Promise of Life Gathering Light Freedom of the Ice Of Endings and Beginnings Afterword …

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The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

Introduction The Road to Power Discovering a Mission Making a Connection Searching for a Hero Developing a Vision Offering Hope in a Crisis Being Certain Journey to War The Man Who Will Come The Importance of Enemies The Lure of the Radical The Thrill of Release Turning Vision Into Reality Risk and Reward The Great …

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Journalism

Preface: A Manifesto Anyone? The Hague The War Crimes Trials The Palestinian Territories Hebron: A Look Inside Gaza Portfolio The Underground War in Gaza The Caucasus Chechen War, Chechen Women What Refugees? Iraq Complacency Kills Down! Up! Trauma on Loan Migration The Unwanted India Kushinagar

The Fabled Coast

Introduction Secrets of the Sea Unnatural natural history The supernatural Men and women of the sea South-West England and Channel Islands Garland Day (Abbotsbury, Dorset) The last battle of the Revenge (Bideford, Devon) A sea above the earth (Bodmin, Cornwall) Drowned bells (Boscastle, Cornwall) The Dog of Bouley (Bouley Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands) The devil-fish …

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

Introduction Science: Ptolemy’s Geography, c. AD 150 Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 Faith: Hereford Mappamundi, c. 1300 Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 Discovery: Martin Waldseemüller, World Map, 1507 Globalism: Diogo Ribeiro, World Map, 1529 Toleration: Gerard Mercator, World Map, 1569 Money: Joan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662 Nation: The Cassini Family, Map of France, 1793 Geopolitics: Halford …

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