For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
M R D Foot

From the September 1982 Issue

Prickly Porcupine

William Cobbett: the Poor Man's Friend

By George Spater

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)

From the August 1983 Issue

Who Dares Wins

Finest Hour: Winston S Churchill 1939–1941

By Martin Gilbert

From the July 2010 Issue

Body of Evidence

Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat

By Denis Smyth

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

From the July 2009 Issue

Collaboration’s Twin

The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis

By Matthew Cobb

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)

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

From the March 2008 Issue

Silence at the Front

The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended

By Nicholas Best

From the February 2008 Issue

Albanian Operations

The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle

By Roderick Bailey