Simon Heffer

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Simon Heffer

The title and sub-title of Charles Dick’s well-researched and scholarly book, Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force that Built the Third Reich, do him, and it, no favours. Yes, Dick has studied, in depth, the Nazi machine – Organisation Todt (OT), named after its founder Fritz Todt – and which Hitler charged with overseeing the infrastructure of the new Germany. But OT was not an unknown enemy, and it certainly isn’t after much scholarship on it.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Simon Heffer

The title and sub-title of Charles Dick's well-researched and scholarly book, Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force that Built the Third Reich, do him, and it, no favours. Yes, Dick has studied, in depth, the Nazi machine - Organisation Todt (OT), named after its founder Fritz Todt - and which Hitler charged with overseeing the infrastructure of the new Germany. But OT was not an unknown enemy, and it certainly isn't after much scholarship on it.

2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Simon Heffer

Reading good prose should be like listening to a well-constructed piece of music: it should have rhythm; it should have cadences; in short, it should have style. In that sentence I have used the four principal marks of punctuation: the colon, the semi-colon, the comma and the full stop. Yet, it is reported, the semi-colon is dying out. The reason why is simple. The teaching of English in our schools in recent decades has been dismal.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Simon Heffer

Reading good prose should be like listening to a well-constructed piece of music: it should have rhythm; it should have cadences; in short, it should have style. In that sentence I have used the four principal marks of punctuation: the colon, the semi-colon, the comma and the full stop. Yet, it is reported, the semi-colon is dying out. The reason why is simple. The teaching of English in our schools in recent decades has been dismal.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Simon Heffer