Book Reviews

Links to book reviews already published on other sites can be found here:


35t‘Inhumane propaganda, humanely analysed?’

Review of David B. Dennis’ Inhumanities. Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Reviews in History.


47‘From Humboldt to Hitler? The Third Reich’s Education Ministry revealed’

Review of Anne C. Nagel’s Hitlers Bildungsreformer. Das Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung 1934-1945 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 2012), in Reviews in History.


62‘Totalitarian individualism? Berliners under the microscope from Weimar to the Wall’

Review of Moritz Föllmer’s Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), published in the Book Reviews section of the Wiener Library Blog.


78‘”An Uncompromising Generation” in a French Impressionist key? Christian Ingrao’s anatomisation of “intellectuals” in the SS war-machine’

Review of Christian Ingrao’s Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013), published in the Book Reviews section of the Wiener Library Blog.


79‘Masculinity and the German First World War experience: A secret history’

Review of Jason Crouthamel’s An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), in Reviews in History.

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Review of ‘German Philhellenism’ by Damian Valdez

Review of Damian Valdez, German Philhellenism: The Pathos of the Historical Imagination from Winckelmann to Goethe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 40 (1), March 2017, pp. 138-9.


9781107028890Review of ‘Contested Commemorations’ by Benjamin Ziemann

Review of Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture, by Benjamin Ziemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The English Historical Review 131 (553), December 2016, pp. 1569-71.


9781137501486‘History’s proximity? Crisis and colonisation in Greece – and the Greek imagination’ 

Review of Daniel M. Knight, History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Sheila Lecoeur, Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), in Reviews in History.


9781571139214Review of ‘Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989’ by Thomas Adam

Review of Thomas Adam’s Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016), in the Modern Language Review 112 (3), July 2017, pp. 738-40.


9780674971547-lg‘Greek Debts: Literal and symbolic; ancient and modern’

Review of Johanna Hanink’s The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017), in Reviews in History.


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Review of Marco Hillemann and Tobias Roth (eds) ‘Wilhelm Müller und der Philhellenismus’

Review of Wilhelm Müller und der Philhellenismus, edited by Marco Hillemann and Tobias Roth (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015), in German Quarterly 90 (4), Fall 2017, pp. 496-7.


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‘Greek Tragedy in Germany’

Review of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Tragedy’s Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), in The Classical Review 68 (1), April 2018, pp. 274-6.


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Review of ‘Making Prussians, Raising Germans’ by Jasper Heinzen

Review of Making Prussians, Raising Germans: A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866-1935, by Jasper Heinzen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), in German History 35 (3), pp. 454-6.


Review of ‘The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis’ by Claudia Sternberg et al. 9781137547507

Review of The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? by Claudia Sternberg, Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), published on the UCL European Studies Blog, 29 October 2018.


9780198728283Review of ‘The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich’

Review of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, ed. Robert Gelatelly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association 104, Issue 362, October 2019, pp. 783-5.


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Review of Klio und die Nationalsozialisten: Gesammelte Schriften zur Wissenschafts und Rezeptionsgeschichte (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2017), published in The Classical Review 69 (2), October 2019, pp. 666-7.


9781474281096Review of ‘The “New Man” in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-1945’

Review of The “New Man” in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-1945, ed. Jorge Dagnino, Matthew Feldman, and Paul Stocker (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), published in Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research e-journal), review no. 2386, April 2020.


9781316608944Review of ‘Building a Nazi Europe’ by Martin Gutmann

Review of Building a Nazi Europe: The SS’s Germanic Volunteers by Martin Gutmann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), in History: The Journal of the Historical Association 106, Issue 369, December 2020, pp.143-5


9781350118942Review of ‘The Image of the Soldier in German Culture’, 1871-1933

Review of The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 by Paul Fox (London: Bloomsbury, 2018, published in Central European History 53 (3), September 2020, pp. 664-5.


international-journal-of-pl_0Books worth (re)reading: Review Essay (IJP 5.3, pp. 343-5)

On George Eisen’s Children and Play in the Holocaust (1988); Nicholas Stargardt’s Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis (2006); Heidi Rosenbaum’s “Und trotzdem war’s ’ne schöne Zeit”: Kinderalltag im Nationalsozialismus (2014), and Bastian Fleermann / Benedikt Mauer (eds) Kriegskinder: Kriegskindheiten in Düsseldorf 1939–1945 (2015).


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