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Germany as jigsaw

This may be the metaphor of the month: I keep imagining the aftermath of an explosion in a jigsaw factory....

Simon Winder has a politically incorrect style of presenting history, which makes it a refreshing, thought-provoking read. I loved his...

Winder breezily lobs perspective into cosy schoolyard us-and-them memories. Britain had a role in triggering the first world war (among...

Winder's Germania shows how far we, and Hollywood, view ancient Germany through the eyes of ancient Rome, a boggy and terrifying 'light-deprived...

I liked this description of a region being 'daft-and-marginal' before splitting in two, with one half somehow managing to rule...

Leigh Fermor's descriptions of pre-war beer halls encompass the quaint, the sinister, the laughable and the grotesque, with first hints...

With apologies to Dakotans, but Winder's lack of political rectitude is part of his charm, and you can be assured it’s...

Winder has a passionate attachment to Germany – nobody could have embraced its vast history and culture with such easy...