Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a phoney, who undercuts his own message through policies that clearly benefit the upper classes’. His personal ‘fascist inclinations’ have been long demonstrated by his ‘admiration of Hitler, his rabid expressions of racism on the infamous Central Park Five case, the promotion of birtherism, his consistent antiSemitic remarks and his sexism and misogyny’. All […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] (known officially as the Dodecanese campaign)3 killed off his hope of avoiding D-Day. There was, of course, a positive side to him that requires acknowledgement. He ‘read’ Hitler correctly from very early on; his defiance between May and September 1940 saved the UK and western democracy; and his opposition to the Nazi regime was […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] S. Mayer15 , was wealthy but the date of Leo’s birth meant that at 18 he would have to be sent away to school in Switzerland, when Hitler came to power; and at 20, being unlawfully gay and living in Hampstead, he would need to be secretive and deceptive, especially when attending an anti-fascist […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: Spandau blood Andrew Rosthorn My article in Lobster 77 (February 2019) asked whether a DNA test had really ‘solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery’, as was claimed by a group of thirteen American and Austrian researchers. 1 In response to my question, the lead author of their research paper, Dr Sherman McCall MD, PhD (Cantab), […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] S. Mayer15 , was wealthy but the date of Leo’s birth meant that at 18 he would have to be sent away to school in Switzerland, when Hitler came to power; and at 20, being unlawfully gay and living in Hampstead, he would need to be secretive and deceptive, especially when attending an anti-fascist […]

The Christian Right Revisited

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt of the Hitler SS’ – something which convinced him that the arrival of the Anti-Christ was imminent. (p. 256) Keddie’s revelation that a 2014 poll showed that only 28 […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] of a garage. He resigned from the party in 1937 – although his letter, now in the National Archives in Washington, DC, ended with the words “Heil Hitler“.’ 6 As many Lobster readers will be aware, Prince Bernhard played an important role in the establishment of the Bilderberg Group in the 1950s.7 The first […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 22 year old, who led the way into Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole her laptop. A video of her giving the Nazi salute and pledging allegiance to Hitler later emerged. There were also a number of Republican Party officials and office holders involved as well. Doug Mastriano, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate […]

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