Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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This book has only just been written and therefore can’t be described as being in the pantheon of Conservative classics.

What makes Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad remarkable is not simply the story, the detail and the historical records to which the author has access. Luckily their son, Daniel Finkelstein, a Times columnist and member of the House of Lords, has put pen to paper for them.Neuroscientist Usha Goswami, chair of the 2023 judging panel, explains why it is important to get children excited about science via books, and introduces us to the fabulous titles that made this year’s shortlist. So you can see that Nixon’s cloth-coat Republicanism, for example, might be very different from contemporaneous Conservatives in the UK, reflecting more support for the royal family. Opinion: It shouldn't have taken a report from outside the Muslim community for Tory Islamophobia to be taken seriously".

Meanwhile, the Tory radicals were out on the street protesting about the failure to improve factory conditions, and these supporters of what later became Lord Shaftesbury’s reforms and the supporters of the Great Reform Bill had a stand-up fight in the streets of Leeds. Photograph: Michael Kooren/Reuters A father and son at a commemoration of the liberation of Westerbork camp in the Netherlands. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. The difference is between attempting to assert democratic rights and limit the power of government within an evolving system versus attempting to achieve the overthrow of all institutions and the entire class structure using blood. Mirjam, as an adult and survivor, also emerges as a woman of remarkable wisdom, someone who has seen the worst of humanity and chosen to represent the best.This is a biography that takes you right into the heart of 1950s Conservatism in the same way that Robert Caro’s life of Lyndon Johnson takes you right into the Senate of the same period – it is very difficult to do if you live in another country but very important to understanding something as nationally individualist as conservatism. This has a good consequence, which is altruism towards others who are not our family; the bad consequence is we tend to look for other people who are like us and we tend to co-operate with them.