Robert Low

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Michael Douglas’s candid memoir really is ‘One Helluva Ride’

The Jewish Hollywood star’s autobiography is a captivating read that will be of interest to both film buffs and the general reader

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Candid memoir: Michael Douglas's enthralling autobiography

Betrayed: French Jews in the Drancy transit camp in 1942, their last stop before the death camps

Sacred Betrayal review: How deafening silence of French bishops condemned so many Jews to their death

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March into war: a Red Army division during the famous Russian fight back against the Nazis

Eyewitness accounts of the Nazi war machine

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London's calling: V2 rocket arriving at Trafalgar Square, London, in 1945

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

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Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

In his understated matter-of-fact style, Buruma tells the extraordinary stories of the Berliner Jews who evaded arrest by the Gestapo

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May 22, 2026 19:30

Meet the world’s first fascist

This is a revelatory biography about the Frenchman who almost fought Dreyfus in a duel

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March 31, 2026 16:39

No match: a drawing of the duel between the Marquis de Morès and Captain Mayer, as it appeared on the front page of Le Petit Parisien Illustré

A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to Netanyahu

Colin Shindler’s historical guide is erudite and concise but perhaps guilty of wishful thinking when it describes a Tel Aviv rally as Bibi’s ‘Ceaușescu moment’

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March 13, 2026 13:18

Pogrom aftermath: burnt-out festival goers' cars at Nova festival site after the massacre

How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasons

Neil Roots has written a well-researched if lightly-edited biography about a man whose deeds were indefensible

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February 27, 2026 12:03

Shameful: (right) post-war slum housing in London. Left: Neil Root's new book

A timely reminder for all those anti-Israel hysterics: this is what genocide looks like

Robert Low welcomes a robust history of the Holocaust in an era in which the facts are under threat

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January 23, 2026 09:37

Jews queuing at the Glass House in Budapest hoping to get documentation that would allow them to leave Hungary

2025 in review: Books

Our critics’ stand-out Jewish books of the year include eviscerating fiction, assiduously researched history, memoirs and reflections on the lives of poets

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December 24, 2025 12:47

The Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi Europe

This moving and tense Holocaust memoir is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and courageous husband and wife whose lives ended in the most appalling circumstances, and who might otherwise be forgotten

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October 24, 2025 17:32

Distinguished: the logician Kurt Grelling translated Russell Bertrand's books into German

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’

He tells the story of the courageous groups of Germans who risked their lives to defy Hitler with all the flair of the seasoned thriller writer that he is

2 min read

September 9, 2025 11:43

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’

Operation Wrath of God review: ‘A reminder of the sad need for Mossad – then and now’

This fascinating account of Israeli counterterrorism is based on unique access to a huge cache of original documents

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September 5, 2025 18:17

Grieving: relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympics receive their coffins at Ben Gurion Airport

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy review: ‘it all ends badly’

This book about the spy who came to regret his double life inside Argentina’s Jewish world is a structural mess

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July 20, 2025 13:02

Co-author Miriam Lewin and the newly translated book

Does the brave new world of AI utterly baffle you? Then this is the book for you

This is an invaluable, clear and rather terrifying account for lay readers of the history, development and possible future of artificial intelligence

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May 13, 2025 14:36

Unique perspective: Richard Susskind and his new book

How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied Norway

This book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in Norway

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April 20, 2025 22:12

Shoah survivor Kai Feinberg and Robert Ferguson's book

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Robert Low

Latest from Robert Low

Michael Douglas’s candid memoir really is ‘One Helluva Ride’

Sacred Betrayal review: How deafening silence of French bishops condemned so many Jews to their death

Eyewitness accounts of the Nazi war machine

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

More from Robert Low

Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

Meet the world’s first fascist

A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to Netanyahu

How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasons

A timely reminder for all those anti-Israel hysterics: this is what genocide looks like

2025 in review: Books

The Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi Europe

The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’

Operation Wrath of God review: ‘A reminder of the sad need for Mossad – then and now’

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy review: ‘it all ends badly’

Does the brave new world of AI utterly baffle you? Then this is the book for you

How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied Norway