From the December 2022 Issue Over Moats & through Barbed Wire Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle By Ben Macintyre The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World By Jonathan Freedland LR
From the November 2021 Issue Midnight in Berlin Eight Days in May: How Germany’s War Ended By Volker Ullrich (Translated from German by Jefferson Chase) LR
From the July 2021 Issue Knights & Commissars The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier By Max Egremont LR
From the November 2020 Issue The Unauthorised Version Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War – 1938–1941 By Alan Allport LR
From the September 2019 Issue Low-flying Legends Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 By Max Hastings LR
From the May 2018 Issue Along Hell’s Highway Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 By Antony Beevor
From the April 2017 Issue Memory Lane Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904–2014 By Pascale Hugues (Translated by C Jon Delogu & Nick Somers) LR
From the February 2016 Issue Raiding History Coventry: Thursday, 14 November 1940 By Frederick Taylor LR
From the May 2010 Issue Five Fateful Months The Battle of Britain: Five Months that Changed History, May–October 1940 By James Holland Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May–September 1940 By Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang LR
From the September 2009 Issue Pilot’s Choice Lancaster: The Second World War’s Greatest Bomber By Leo McKinstry LR
From the October 2012 Issue Revenge & Repercussions Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War By R M Douglas LR
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