Topic
World War II
- Weekend Reading: Koestler on Awareness, 21st Century Alchemy, and the Gini Coefficient
🔮 The Nightmare That Is a Reality In early 1944, journalist Arthur Koestler was onto the horrors of the Holocaust taking place in Europe. He wrote this essay, originally published in the New York Times, calling atten…
- A Reverse Dunkirk
In Erik Larson's book The Splendid and the Vile, he tells the story of Britain during the Blitz of 1940-41. In May of 1940, a strategic lapse by the Germans allowed the British to evacuate 330,000 Allied soldiers from…