Leaving fatherland

Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...

My Berlin probably peaked on 9th November 2014. In a spacious borrowed flat in Mitte, not far from trendy Arkonaplatz, I had countersigned a passport application for a baby just born to friends: Briti

Thomas Pynchon’s haunted vision of history

In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”