Desolation
A masterful new history tells the story of the doomed 1944 Warsaw uprising as no other book yet has writes Ilana Bet-El—and the contemporary parallels are haunting.
Bang Bang
As we near the World War I centenary, few books offer greater insight into the world of 1913 than a novel about an upper-crust English shooting party—and its eerie parallels with today.
The Survivor
Historian Otto Dov Kulka spent his life studying the Holocaust, but how can one ever fully capture its horrors? By Ilana Bet-El.
Dinner Party
The EU countries are happy lovers doing nothing more than having a little spat.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance is both delusional and detrimental to the wider cause of Israel.