ARTICLE: WW2: A Battle of Individuals?

Today I’m going back to a small book by the notable historian John Keegan, which examines the historiography of the Second World War and how it has shaped our understanding of the conflict.

Last time, I looked at some of the controversies he examined, such as to what extent Hitler knew about the final solution, and how this had been interpreted half a century on. I also looked at his examination of some of the big guns in terms of historians who had written about the conflict as of the mid-90s. You can look at the first piece here:

ARTICLE: Re-fighting the Second World War

Today, I want to dive a little deeper. The available material on the subject of this war is vast, so how do you go about picking a gem from something that deserves to be used as a door stop? Let’s look at biographies…