J.P. O'Malley

J.P. O'Malley appears in the following:

'Into The Forest' Tells Story Of One Family's Escape From Nazi-Created Zhetel Ghetto

Tuesday, September 07, 2021

While the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is well-documented, pockets of Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. Zhetel is one such place.

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'Operation Sea Lion' Is A Flawed But Fascinating Look At WWII

Sunday, November 16, 2014

During the summer of 1940, the Third Reich occupied most of Europe. If Britain fell too, the complete Nazification of the continent seemed like a real possibility.

And the German High Command had a plan for the invasion: Operation Sea Lion. But the mission never materialized into action.

After the ...

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Will Self's 'Shark' Swims In A Chaotic Sea

Sunday, November 09, 2014

Since the publication of his 2012 novel, Umbrella, Will Self has become a strong advocate for resurrecting modernist literature in the 21st century.

In a series of articles and public lectures, Self has pointed out that modernism never really got a foothold in English culture. In its place, he argues, ...

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'Rebellion' Charts A Tumultuous, Formative Century

Friday, October 24, 2014

The 17th century was one of the most radical periods in all of English history. It was an era of enormous change, upheaval and debate, and extreme violence, which saw the evolution of the modern British state as we know it today.

But the transition from a haphazard kingdom ruled ...

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London Through The Eyes Of Dickens In 'The Victorian City'

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

In September 1777, Samuel Johnson declared to his friend James Boswell, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life."

Johnson actually was referring to his hectic social calendar, but he did have a point. The city he was discussing was on course to become the largest ...

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Standing 2 Feet From The President Ought To Be More Exciting

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Picture the following scenario: you are a Secret Service agent being paid to protect the President's life, when suddenly you feel an urgent call of nature. Well, that's exactly what happened to Dan Emmett on a state visit to Europe with Bill Clinton during the 1990s.

In a newly revised ...

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'Story Of The Jews' Illuminates Centuries Of Suffering

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

In the early 1930s, an ominous, yet very familiar shadow recast itself across the continent of Europe: extreme hatred of the Jew.

This fierce loathing reached its apogee when Hitler came to power in 1933 — but just a decade earlier, Jews were considered the backbone of European culture, flourishing ...

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American Voices On 'The Unwinding' Of America's Values

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Halfway through The Unwinding, George Packer — author of the highly praised The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (2005)delineates how quickly political idealism can disappear when one becomes exposed to a world of easy money.

Jeff Connaughton, who served as a legal adviser in the Clinton White House ...

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