Ian Buruma on the twentieth-century Italian writer Curzio Malaparte, a fascist and a fabulist with a hunger for war and a remarkable way of capturing it; Sue Stuart-Smith on gardening in the trenches of the First World War and the concept of horticultural therapy; to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the TLS's history editor David Horspool talks us through a range of books, articles and essays covering the Second World WarSelected booksDiary of a Foreigner in Paris, by Curzio Malaparte, translated from the Italian and the French by Stephen TwilleyThe Well-Gardened Mind: The restorative power of nature, by Sue Stuart-SmithDresden: The fire and the darkness, by Sinclair McKayThe Volunteer: The true story of the resistance hero who infiltrated Auschwitz, by Jack Fairweather
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