Peter Englund's new book argues it was – with testimony from an eclectic cast including Vera Brittain, Sophie Scholl and Humphrey Bogart Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also ...

Both my grandfathers were soldiers in the First World War, one for the United States and one for France, and two of my French great-uncles also fought in the war, one of whom was killed. Some years ...

The long summer that led up to the last days of peace in Europe in 1914 gave little hint of the storm to come. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June, however, and ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Peter Englund is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2024 Interview. The year is 1942, the month is November. The subject of Peter ...

These three books explore key moments in World War II through the eyes of participants who could not know what the future held for them or their countries. This approach humanizes history by allowing ...

Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, talks about the difficulties in choosing the Nobel prize for literature When Peter Englund came in to the Guardian earlier this year to ...

People living in a world at war could not know that November 1942 marked the turning point of the conflict. This was the month when Winston Churchill proclaimed that the war had reached ‘the end of ...

Can people who didn't experience the first world war ever know – really know – what it was like? The question troubled a French civil servant, Michel Corday, in 1917. Not that Corday ever smelled a ...

In a brilliant feat of retrospective journalism, leading Swedish historian Englund allows 20 individuals during WWI to convey their experiences through diaries and letters: among them, an English ...

At 4am on August 2 1914, Laura de Turczynowicz, an American married to a Polish aristocrat, was woken in her forest villa by someone banging on the window. It was a servant with a message from her ...