NR PLUS Magazine The Nazis’ War on a Vagrant Language By Howard Schneider March 18, 2021 A review of The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate, by Martin Puchner.
Books When Piracy Threatened to Destroy the East India Company By Howard Schneider August 15, 2020 A new book tells the story of the 17th-century clash between the pirate Henry Every and the world’s most extraordinary global corporation.
NR PLUS Books A Disquieting Look at the History of Nuclear-War Gaming By Howard Schneider February 29, 2020 The Bomb unravels the history of bureaucratic infighting over nuclear weapons.
NR PLUS Magazine Thomas Edison’s Strange Genius By Howard Schneider November 7, 2019 A review of Edison, by Edmund Morris.