Friday, September 13, 2024

Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands--a NewYork Times bestsller--Hitler, Stalin, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Jews--

https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471?asin=0465031471&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
I've been to Auschwitz and Majdanek in Poland.
This is a must read--also Robert Conquest,The Great Terror.

I think Mel Gibson was excellent as Hamlet--Glen Close less so as the queen his mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet All these critics saying this and that. I don't much care. In the end Shakespeare is Shakespear...