How Torture Helped Win WWII
Historian Andrew Roberts' latest book, Masters and Commanders, was published in the UK in September. His previous books include Napoleon and Wellington, Hitler and Churchill, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
Fretting over waterboarding, writes British historian Andrew Roberts, obscures the fact that "enhanced interrogation techniques" have saved thousands of lives in every war. Plus, read Michael Korda's review of Roberts' book Masters and Commanders: How Churchill, Roosevelt, Alanbrooke and Marshall Won the War in the West, 1941-45.
Elliott Roosevelt's book As He Saw It is a must-read that includes intimate conversations with his dad at key moments of World War II. The pages tell of meetings with Stalin, Churchill, and others, and show the elder Roosevelt setting ou...
Oliver Stone is a film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Platoon, drawing on his Vietnam experience; it was followed by movies such as Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon and W.
Obama's Speech and the Burden of History
Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, is writing his memoir. Editor at large of The Week, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967-81 and The Times from 1981-82, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House Trade Group from 1990-97.
Expectations for Obama's address today are nothing short of extraordinary, as he prepares for a speech that could be remembered alongside the Gettysburg Address and FDR's Fireside Chats.
MASTERS & COMMANDERS: HOW FOUR TITANS WON THE WAR IN THE WEST 1941-45 The four titans are Churchill and FDR and their two top staff generals, Marshall and Alan Brooke.A The account of the war and its intrigues is fresh filled with new re...
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of Young Stalin, winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Biography, and of the forthcoming novel Sashenka, out in November from Simon & Schuster. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sixty Years of Meddling and Bad Blood
Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire was published last year. She writes a film column for The Guardian Online and is working on a book about the Cold War in the Caribbean.
Pakistan, born in the scrabble to decolonize after World War II, has suffered from endless American and British meddling. Now is the time for slow understanding, not a quick exit.
What if the polls are wrong, as when Harry Truman beat Tom Dewey in 1948? What if they are missing a late surge for McCain, as they famously overestimated support for Tom Bradley in the 1982 Los Angeles mayoral race? Political history is riddled with upsets. Are we about to witness another?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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