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Jan 18, 2025 | 
jpost.com | Colin Shindler |Vernon Bogdanor
The author, Vernon Bogdanor, a respected professor of government, argues that the influence of these six was based on being good communicators and “important teachers.”
During the 1930s, Winston Churchill cast out from the political establishment as an eccentric warmonger, earned his living through his writing.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
haaretz.com | Colin Shindler
Opinion | When Israeli ministers call to resettle Gaza, when Netanyahu abandons the hostages and attacks democracy – there's a deafening silence from leading U.K. Jewish organizations.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Sarah Rainsford |Colin Shindler
Goodbye to Russia: A Personal Reckoning from the Ruins of War By Sarah Rainsford Bloomsbury, £22 October 7 has become a day of remembrance. On the anniversary of that day in a few weeks, some Russians will also remember the fearless journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was gunned down as she entered her apartment on October 7, 2006. The people who hired the hit squad have ever been found. The same is true of the politician and Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, executed on a Moscow bridge in 2015.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Richard Evans |Colin Shindler
Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich By Richard J. Evans Allen Lane, £30 Why did so many hitherto responsible citizens become fellow travellers in Hitler’s Germany? Why were ordinary people in their millions sucked into a whirlpool of deception? These are the questions that have been repeatedly asked since 1945. Sir Richard Evans, a renowned scholar of the Third Reich, attempts to provide answers in this important book.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Colin Shindler
Descubre la vida de Golda Meir desde una perspectiva feminista. Conoce su historia, luchas y logros como primera ministra de Israel y su impacto en la política mundial. Una biografía que inspira.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Colin Shindler |Barbara Winton
In 1939, Nicholas Winton, with his colleagues in the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC), Doreen Warriner and Trevor Chadwick, was responsible for bringing 669 children from Nazi-occupied Prague to the safety of the United Kingdom. Winton’s remarkable story was told in the recently released film One Life, starring the brilliant Anthony Hopkins. The film is based on the book One Life by his daughter, Barbara Winton, first published a decade ago and now republished in 2024.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Colin Shindler |Peter Pomerantsev
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler recalls the black arts of propaganda from World War II. It is also a trumpet blast against the gullibility of today’s audiences brought up in England, told by Peter Pomerantsev, the son of a Kyiv dissident and leading expert on disinformation. In 1941, a shortwave German-language radio station called Gustav Siegfried Eins went on the air.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Saul David |Robert Verkaik |Colin Shindler
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War by Saul David William Collins, £25 The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII'S Greatest Betrayal and the Moment that Changed History Forever by Robert Verkaik Headline Welbeck, £20 Reviewed by Colin Shindler Eighty years ago, thousands of Allied paratroopers jumped out of aircraft and gliders into the Arnhem region on the Dutch-German border.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Geoffrey Levin |Colin Shindler
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent 1948—1977 By Geoffrey Levin Yale University Press, £25 In the early 1960s, Ben-Gurion implied that, following the founding of the state of Israel, ideological Zionism had lost its meaning. The imperative to emigrate and build up the Hebrew republic had been replaced by support in the diaspora for successive Israeli governments, bolstered by an unquestioning devotion to a broad Israelism.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
chartist.org.uk | Colin Shindler
The result of the election in Israel in 1977 is known in Hebrew as “the Earthquake”. It marked the end of the Labour party’s long rule and the beginning of the long decline of the Israeli Left. The party with which Aneurin Bevan, Jennie Lee and Harold Wilson had identified was replaced by Menahem Begin’s nationalist Likud and its enthusiasm to establish settlements on the West Bank and Gaza, conquered by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
