Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Saturday, September 4, 2021

Evoking Zeitgeist

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One of the most difficult challenges for any writer is to try to evoke the spirit of a nation - in a balanced but insightful way. Chauvinism...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Links I Liked

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  1. Heads or Hands? It’s interesting that we should get 2 new books in a single month challenging one of the basic principles of our time...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Plus Ca Change,,,,plus c’est la meme chose???

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European countries have experienced massive changes since the end of the war – and yet, I keep on wondering, .”to what extent do national c...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Schuld

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I’m conscious that my big readers these past few weeks have been from Russian servers – although I’m not sure if they are from heartland R...

The Loss of German Identity?

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In the post-war period academics were about the only British writers who tried to deal with Germany – and then only historians such as AJP...
Friday, July 10, 2015

German Musings

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Tourism is one of the biggest global industries and yet gives us few real opportunities to fathom the soul of a country – although a retir...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The German connection

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Almost a month ago I had been so impressed by the opening story of a book devoted to stories of Anglo-German friendships and loves that ...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Remembering

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It was remiss of me not to have mentioned the exhibition of Otto Dix graphics now in its last few weeks at the Bucharest National Galle...