From the September 1982 Issue Prickly Porcupine William Cobbett: the Poor Man's Friend By George Spater LR
From the June 1982 Issue Another King Alfred The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson Vol 1 1821-1850 By Cecil Y Lang and Edgar F Shannon, Jr (ed) LR
From the August 1983 Issue Who Dares Wins Finest Hour: Winston S Churchill 1939–1941 By Martin Gilbert LR
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From the October 2009 Issue Fighting Talk The Making of the British Army: From the English Civil War to the War on Terror By Allan Mallinson LR
From the July 2009 Issue Collaboration’s Twin The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis By Matthew Cobb LR
From the May 2008 Issue In Daily Peril Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War By Roderick Bailey (ed) LR
From the June 2008 Issue ‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’ Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization By Nicholson Baker LR
From the March 2008 Issue Silence at the Front The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended By Nicholas Best LR
From the February 2008 Issue Albanian Operations The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle By Roderick Bailey LR
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