From the February 2023 Issue Cabinet Table Generals Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914–1945 By Robin Prior LR
From the June 2022 Issue The Right to Lay Down Arms Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War By Tobias Kelly LR
From the November 2021 Issue Snowdrops & Doodlebugs The Battle of London 1939–45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty under Fire By Jerry White LR
From the September 2014 Issue Boys in the Barracks National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 By Richard Vinen LR
From the April 2010 Issue The Homecoming The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War By Ben Shephard LR
From the April 2012 Issue Days of Vengeance Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II By Keith Lowe LR
From the December 2013 Issue Battle Basics Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944–5 By John Buckley LR
From the April 2013 Issue Escape to Infamy Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War By Charles Glass 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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