
De Gaulle’s Gamble
After the defeat of 1940, Charles de Gaulle was convinced that even a minor contribution to the war against the Axis would assure France’s place among the victors.
The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle
February 13, 2025 issue
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Robert O. Paxton is the Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia, specializing in modern European history, especially France. His most recent book is The Anatomy of Fascism. (February 2025)
De Gaulle’s Gamble
After the defeat of 1940, Charles de Gaulle was convinced that even a minor contribution to the war against the Axis would assure France’s place among the victors.
The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle
February 13, 2025 issue
Intrepid Navigators
Migration’s demands on birds are as daunting mentally as they are physically.
What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why
by David Allen Sibley
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
by Jennifer Ackerman
Flights of Passage: An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration
by Mike Unwin and David Tipling
February 25, 2021 issue
The Reich in Medias Res
The Order of the Day
by Éric Vuillard, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti
December 6, 2018 issue
The Children Strike Back
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
translated from the French by Sam Taylor
May 24, 2018 issue
The Cultural Axis
Benjamin Martin’s ‘The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture’
The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture
by Benjamin G. Martin
October 26, 2017 issue
A Parliament of Owls
The truth about owls is no less interesting than what humans project onto them.
The Enigma of the Owl: An Illustrated Natural History
by Mike Unwin and David Tipling, with a foreword by Tony Angell
Owls: A Guide to Every Species in the World
by Marianne Taylor
May 25, 2017 issue
Look Up and See!
More different kinds of birds nest in New York City now than did 50 years ago
Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
by Leslie Day, with illustrations by Trudy Smoke, photographs by Beth Bergman, and a foreword by Don Riepe
June 23, 2016 issue
The Truth About the Resistance
Who were the resisters, what were they resisting, and what difference did they really make?
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
by Robert Gildea
Histoire de la Résistance, 1940–1945
by Olivier Wieviorka
February 25, 2016 issue
A Surprising Prime Minister
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
August 13, 2015 issue
The Bloodiest Urban Revolution
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
by John Merriman
February 19, 2015 issue
It’s Time to Live with the Birds
Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife
by John M. Marzluff, with illustrations by Jack DeLap
November 20, 2014 issue
When France Went Dreadfully Wrong
The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914–1940
by Frederick Brown
August 14, 2014 issue
Jews: How Vichy Made It Worse
Persécutions et entraides dans la France occupée: comment 75% des Juifs en France ont échappé à la mort [Persecutions and Mutual Help in Occupied France: How 75 Percent of the Jews of France Escaped Death]
by Jacques Semelin
March 6, 2014 issue
The Founding Birdman
Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology
by Edward H. Burtt Jr. and William E. Davis Jr.
October 10, 2013 issue
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