The Qur’an’s historical account of the story of Gideon contradicts that of the historical account found in the Bible. The Qur’an claims that King Saul’s army was cut down in size to fight Goliath and his warriors, while the Bible claims that Gideon’s army was cut down in size to fight the Midianites. The question then becomes: Which account is correct?

Christopher Clark’s Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 is a historical work of the highest tier. Clark writes an excellent summary of the entire history of Prussia from its humble beginnings as Brandenburg—an Electorate within the Holy Roman Empire—to its abolition by the Allies after Germany’s defeat in Second World War.

Tim Bouverie wrote the authoritative book when it comes to Neville Chamberlain’s failed policy of appeasement in the 1930s. After getting through this masterpiece of a book, I had to stop and ask myself: “How did the British refrain from placing Chamberlain’s head on a spike?”

I hate this book; I’m just going to state it from the beginning. I will never write a review for a book having read only half of it—in this case 230 pages. For me, I have to read the entirety of a book to write a good and comprehensive review. But I hate this book so much that I’m willing to make an exception, and I hate it for one simple reason: The title is completely misleading.

Whereas Volume One of Mein Kampf follows Hitler from his youth as a boy in his native Austria to his early career as a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Volume Two is about the political philosophy and guiding principles of the party. It begins with a general philosophy of the state and its citizens and ends with recommendations for German foreign policy.

If you want to understand Adolf Hitler, not what he did, but why he did, then this is a must-read. Only in the pages of Mein Kampf do we get in the mind of Germany’s future dictator and truly understand his motives and vision of reality—a vision stained by social Darwinism and anti-Semitism.

My newspaper article from the November 11, 2022 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal. Could Vladimir Putin trigger the next Great War in the Pacific? Or is Putin simply testing the West in his latest invasion?