From the October 2017 Issue Leading Questions The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre By Helen Fry LR
From the November 2015 Issue The Decryption Factor The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45 By Max Hastings LR
From the February 2011 Issue Eggheads Go East The Emperor’s Codes: Bletchley Park’s Role in Breaking Japan’s Secret Ciphers By Michael Smith LR
From the April 2007 Issue A Man With No Side Thirty Secret Years: A G Denniston’s Work in Signals Intelligence 1914–1944 By Robin Denniston LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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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.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: