Caroline Moorehead
It’s still impossible for Horst Wächter to recognise his father as a Nazi war criminal
Caroline Moorehead 18 April 2020 9:00 am
In 1926, while putting in place the repressive laws and decrees that would define his dictatorship, Mussolini appointed a new…
The tragic story of Witold Pilecki, whose reports from Auschwitz fell on deaf ears
Caroline Moorehead 13 July 2019 9:00 am
On 14 October 1942, the 23 Swiss members of the International Committee of the Red Cross met in Geneva to…
An Egyptian comedy of errors
Caroline Moorehead 16 January 2016 9:00 am
The Yacoubian Building, the first novel of the Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany, sold well over a million copies in…
Picasso’s dealer
Caroline Moorehead 4 October 2014 9:00 am
When she was four, Anne Sinclair had her portrait painted by Marie Laurencin. It is a charming picture, a little…
The Spanish Civil War hotel that Capa, Hemingway and Gelhorn called home
Caroline Moorehead 21 June 2014 8:00 am
In February 1924 the Hotel Florida, a ten- storey marble-clad building with 200 rooms, a glass-roofed atrium and red plush…
Monsieur le Commandant, by Romain Slocombe - review
Caroline Moorehead 28 September 2013 9:00 am
There can be few characters in modern fiction more unpleasant than Paul-Jean Husson, the narrator in Romain Slocombe’s Monsieur le…