Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] of the casualties incurred in the Dower notes that some of the European scientists, who had assumed that they were working on a scheme that would thwart Hitler building the first atomic weapons, were dismayed by the steady drift of the Manhattan Project toward an anti-Soviet outcome. It is interesting to consider at what […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] difference. While other publications might try to kid you that the Windsors are a race of superintelligent space lizards (if only they were that interesting), or that Hitler ended up running ice-cream parlours in Buenos Aires, the Lobster credo is facts, figures and verification. Every unpalatable truth featured in the mag is backed up […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] in the Mossad cast his eyes down and appeared to be talking to his boots, ‘Blame the zealots. I thought the spirit of the Jews had survived Hitler and the Shoah. But I’m certain now that I was wrong.’ Although his real name was unknown to me, he talked confidentially about the ‘bloodlust’ of […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] in the Mossad cast his eyes down and appeared to be talking to his boots, ‘Blame the zealots. I thought the spirit of the Jews had survived Hitler and the Shoah. But I’m certain now that I was wrong.’ Although his real name was unknown to me, he talked confidentially about the ‘bloodlust’ of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] There he was described as ‘migration expert, a former attorney general of Ireland, and chairman of the London School of Economics’.103 Which is akin to describing Adolf Hitler as a ‘minor Austrian painter’. Pentagonism What is it with the American state and Saudi Arabia? Bin Laden is a Saudi, the 9/11 gang were almost […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] be ready. 47 Sean Durbin, Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity and Myth in John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel (Boston: Brill, 2019) p. 54 48 15 claimed that Hitler was a ‘half-breed Jew’ and a homosexual and that the Antichrist would be the same; and that the persecution the Jews had suffered throughout history, including […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Czechoslovakia in 1938. Klop hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] know with the benefit of hindsight; but until about 1943, and the lead up to the Allied D-Day landings, the situation was not so clear. What if Hitler – already known to be an impetuous leader – had suddenly decided to cross the 1 This is not to belittle the men who did serve […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] years. His publications range from The Feminist Movement in Germany 1894-1933 (1976), to The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History (1988), to Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial (2002) and on to his three volume history of the Third Reich: The Coming of the Third Reich […]

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