Fighting words
Books on war are, like the last soldiers of the world’s conflicts, not as numerous as they once were. But still they march on, in quality and surprising quantity, such is our fascination in this time of relative peace.
This month, we’ll see STALIN’S WAR (Basic Books) by Sean McMeekin, a prize-winning historian at New York’s Bard College, which promises a fresh history of World War II that draws on new research across three countries’ archives.
