Versailles, 1919-2009: The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today across a huge area from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans and even beyond. Form TLS, a review of books on Stalin. The first chapter from Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution by Robert C. Allen. Julius Purcell on the memory that will not die: Exhuming the Spanish Civil War. A review of War is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War by James Neugass. A review of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts (and more and more and more and more and more). On the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, Robert McCrum considers the legacy of the greatest conflict the world has ever witnessed. A review of 1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan (and more and more and more). The Khrushchev connection: Who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall? An interview with Kurt Edward Kepmer, author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era. A review of Gordon M. Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam. A review of Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year by Alistair Horne (and more and more and more). A review of The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Michael Meyer. The wink that changed the world: This is the way the Warsaw Pact folded, not with a bang but a gesture.
