I ponder the things Irish (besides fresh tea or biscuits) and let you know. ;-)
I haven't read Anne Applebaum's book -- I do know about it, as she is a columnist for the Washington Post -- because I've already read Solzhenitsyn's tome, and hadn't kept up with the field in the past 15 years. I should get that one just to see what she has to say.
Holocaust history was an interest of mine for many years. One of my cousins survived Auschwitz; she was just a few years younger than my grandmother (the benefit of large families). If she's still alive she's far gone in Alzheimer's, but I did find her entries in the Shoah database.
The branching off to Soviet history was a natural outgrowth of the Holocaust period. Lately I've actually been reading more WWII history based on Band of Brothers, which was a very well-made series on HBO, later re-broadcast on A&E and the History channel. It's the same period of time and a completely different perspective.
Easy Company actually liberated a concentration camp, so there's the overlap.
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I haven't read Anne Applebaum's book -- I do know about it, as she is a columnist for the Washington Post -- because I've already read Solzhenitsyn's tome, and hadn't kept up with the field in the past 15 years. I should get that one just to see what she has to say.
Holocaust history was an interest of mine for many years. One of my cousins survived Auschwitz; she was just a few years younger than my grandmother (the benefit of large families). If she's still alive she's far gone in Alzheimer's, but I did find her entries in the Shoah database.
The branching off to Soviet history was a natural outgrowth of the Holocaust period. Lately I've actually been reading more WWII history based on Band of Brothers, which was a very well-made series on HBO, later re-broadcast on A&E and the History channel. It's the same period of time and a completely different perspective.
Easy Company actually liberated a concentration camp, so there's the overlap.