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The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages on in a new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner.
By Wesley Yang
September 26, 2002
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He fought duels, seduced women, crashed planes, allied with Hitler, lost a war and ran Italy into the ground, but at heart Il Duce considered himself an artist.
By Paul Festa
July 9, 2002
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John Woo's ultraviolent paean to the Navajo "code talkers" who fought with the Marines in World War II takes his Hollywood dream to new heights.
By Stephanie Zacharek
June 14, 2002
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A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war.
By Allen Barra
June 11, 2002
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Put Bruce Willis and this bewildering World War II movie in front of the firing line.
By Charles Taylor
February 15, 2002
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At 79, the author of "Slaughterhouse Five" reflects on Sept. 11, death, heaven and the meaning of life.
By Christopher Kemp
December 12, 2001
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With the ratio of guys to gals at Pearl Harbor, the film should have dealt a bit more with what must have been going on.
By David Thomson
May 18, 2001
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Some say putting civilian contributors at the controls of our warships is reckless -- but did that cause the deaths of nine Japanese?
By Daryl Lindsey
February 17, 2001
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Old home movies show the genesis of Steven Spielberg's sincere but deeply conventional wartime drama.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 18, 2000
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The Greatest Generation
By Non-Fiction | Random House, Inc
October 5, 2000
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"Snow Falling on Cedars"
By David Guterson
October 5, 2000
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After World War II, 800 years of history came to a standstill in the Polish city of Oswiecim. Fifty years later, residents are growing restless.
By David Lazarus
September 18, 2000
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My cantankerous father and my own better judgment won't let me get sentimental about WWII veterans.
By Sean Elder
July 31, 2000
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Independence Day is a national holiday, but personal associations -- from heroism to heroin -- are what give it meaning.
By Cary Tennis
June 30, 2000
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The new film from the folks who gave us "Angels and Insects" is strictly "Minor Piece Theatre."
By Michael Sragow
May 5, 2000
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The director of the cult thriller "Breakdown," Jonathan Mostow, talks about making a mainstream splash with "U-571."
By Michael Sragow
May 4, 2000
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During World War II, this number was meant to track whether or not he was still alive. Now, he wants it to follow him to his grave.
By Alexandra J. Wall
May 1, 2000
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Damn the torpedoes! Damn the formulaic modern American action movie!
By Charles Taylor
April 21, 2000
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Holocaust denier David Irving loses his London libel suit.
By Heather World
April 11, 2000
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The rise of Joerg Haider forces Austria to face the truth about its history -- and puts the European Union in a bind.
By John Marks
February 7, 2000
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If you have any love for the infinite possibilities of film, you can't avoid being horrified by what the movie industry has become.
By Cintra Wilson
February 3, 2000
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Immigrants and their German-born children find themselves cut off from state benefits.
By Allison Linn and Ayla Jean Yackley
January 6, 2000
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In a new novel, the cantankerous 1999 Nobel laureate takes on his times, year by year.
By Michael Scott Moore
December 14, 1999
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Angry old ladies are stepping forward to testify about the horrors of their years as Japanese "comfort women."
By Hank Hyena
November 1, 1999
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In his controversial -- and frightening -- new bestseller, Pat Buchanan argues for a mighty America built upon the corpses of the weak.
By Charles Taylor
October 22, 1999
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