Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a photographer noted for his contributions to The Sunday Times David Bowie stated on 26 April 1976, ’I believe Britain could benefit from a dictator’ and ‘ Hitler was the first rock star’. See or . Eric Clapton’s utterances, about Enoch Powell and immigration, were made at a gig in Birmingham on 5 August […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and was widely admired across the world as a reforming moderniser. This is something today’s readers would do well to remember. When Zangara shot at Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler had only been Chancellor of Germany for a fortnight, and fascism was not yet seen as a toxic ideology. A large exodus of anti-fascist Italians had […]

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

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[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 […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] section that had been used as the Azov Battalion’s headquarters. She writes: As from the material which was left behind, you could clearly see the Nazi ideology, Hitler paintings, SS stickers, books and booklets with swastikas and brochures and manuals from NATO, filled with instructions—along with the business cards of the NATO advisers and […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

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 free article

[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) FREE

[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 […]

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