From the September 2021 Issue The World Ablaze Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931–1945 By Richard Overy LR
From the November 2019 Issue They Shall Not Pass The Fortess: The Great Siege of Przemyśl By Alexander Watson LR
From the June 1987 Issue He Danced with Molotov Oni: Stalin's Polish Puppets By Teresa Torańska (Translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska)
From the February 2019 Issue Waltz through Time Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 By Richard Bassett LR
From the September 2016 Issue Grand Designs The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 By Richard J Evans LR
From the May 2016 Issue Self-Preservation Society The Habsburg Empire: A New History By Pieter M Judson LR
From the June 2015 Issue Five Shades of Red For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army from 1619 to 1918 By Richard Bassett LR
From the October 2012 Issue All Together Now Governing the World: The History of an Idea By Mark Mazower LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
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