Frank Trentmann

Oct 22, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Paul Starobin |Andrew Moravcsik |Frank Trentmann |Simon Kuper

In This Review In This Review Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better RussiaRussia has produced waves of exiles: liberal Decembrists fled in the early nineteenth century, Marxists and anarchists in the early twentieth century, and anticommunists through much of the twentieth century. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, over one million Russians have left the country, including tech workers and Orthodox priests.

Oct 11, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Frank Trentmann |Andrew Moravcsik |Simon Kuper |Frank Trentmann Knopf

In This Review In This Review Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022This rich history traces the “moral transformation of Germany” from the depths of Nazism to its liberal present. Germans, Trentmann argues, turn “all social, economic and political problems into moral ones.” The book begins in 1942 with a description of how individual Germans resisted the growing sense of their culpability for World War II by insisting on their personal innocence.

Aug 30, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Frank Trentmann |Allen Lane |Klaus Neumann

The Paris Olympics inevitably provoked memories of past Games, and especially sporting feats with broader repercussions: Jesse Owen’s gold medal sprint during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, for example, or Tommie Smith’s Black Panther salute after winning the 200 metres in Mexico City in 1968, or the “blood in the water” encounter between Hungary and the Soviet Union during the Melbourne Games. But few remember sailor Rolf Mulka’s bronze medal in the Rome Olympics in 1960.

May 23, 2024 | thecipherbrief.com | Frank Trentmann

BOOK REVIEW: OUT OF THE DARKNESS: The Germans 1942 – 2022By Frank Trentmann / Alfred A. KnopfReviewed by: Bill RappThe Reviewer— Bill Rapp holds a Ph.D. in European History and taught at Iowa State University before joining the CIA. He served over 35 years as an analyst, diplomat, and senior executive before retiring as a member of the Senior Intelligence Service in 2017.

Apr 30, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Frank Trentmann

Are Germans dangerously different? After Germany precipitated two world wars and carried out the most widespread and systematic destruction of human life in history, many academics writing in the mid-20th century thought so.