HeyJaredGiles MacDonogh’s Substack
I write mostly about history and books, but sometimes also about food and wine.
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20 July 1944 (opens the original)
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The Twilight of the Gods (opens the original)
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Living in hotels in Berlin, working in libraries and archives by day and dining in solitary splendour by night, might have proved an austere sort of life had it not been for a few well-placed contacts, both German and British. Friends in the British Army turned out to be a more than welcome distraction.In 1991, the allied powers that had carved up Germany after the war continued to maintain garrisons in Berlin. The Russians were less noticeable in the city as they spilled out all over the east,
Feeling the Heat: The Moscow Coup in Frankfurt an der Oder (opens the original)
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The Lot Revisited (opens the original)
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Britons and Germans, Germans and Britons (opens the original)
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