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Roger Moorhouse

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History, Nonfiction

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Living the Dream. Historian and author of an international bestseller - "Berlin at War" was #1 in Lithuania :-) - as well as a few other books, such as "Killing Hitler", "The Devils' Alliance" and "First to Fight" - the last of which won the Polish Foreign Ministry History Prize in 2020.

I write mainly about Nazi Germany and wartime Poland, but I fear that might scare some people off, so I'll just call myself a writer of history books.

My current book (published in the UK in August 2023) is "The Forgers", which is the fascinating story of the Ładoś Group - a ring of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists operating out of wartime Switzerland - who were forging Latin American passports to help Jews escape the Holocaust. It is a VERY interesting ...more

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	Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 4.17 avg rating — 1,140 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II 4.23 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 4.16 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2014 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death 3.82 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse (Goodreads Author), Richard Overy (Foreword) 4.26 avg rating — 187 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wolf's Lair: Inside Hitler's Germany 3.67 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ship of Fate: The Story of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff 3.98 avg rating — 168 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation 3.81 avg rating — 127 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Struggle: Hitler in Landsberg Prison, 1924 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of the Third Reich's Press Chief by Roger Moorhouse (Goodreads Author), Otto Dietrich 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Two pieces caught my eye, this morning, as I was trying to make sense of the strange world we all now inhabit. The first was by Douglas Murray, on the subject of Big Tech, and their encroachments into the realm of censorship. I'm a fan of Murray's. He is a rare example of a clear-eyed thinker in the complex and emotionally-charged times in which we live. In his piece - published here by the eq

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Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

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“As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow.”
― Roger Moorhouse

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“Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.”
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“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth.”
― Roger Moorhouse, Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

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