For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Nicholas Rankin

From the February 2025 Issue

Among the Bandits

A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis

By John Hatt (ed)

From the November 2024 Issue

We Shall Fight in the Buttery

Oxford’s War 1939–1945

By Ashley Jackson

From the December 1983 Issue

Patriarchal Patterns

Don Bueno

By Zulfikar Ghose

From the April 2018 Issue

Tuning Out

Auntie’s War: The BBC during the Second World War

By Edward Stourton

From the February 2018 Issue

Art of War

Guernica: Painting the End of the World

By James Attlee

From the September 1983 Issue

A Warm Gun

Eight gun magazines

From the July 2003 Issue

Memorable Deedes

At War With Waugh: The Real Story of Scoop

By W F Deedes

From the October 2009 Issue

Murky Waters

Papa Spy: Love, Faith and Betrayal in Wartime Spain

By Jimmy Burns

From the March 2007 Issue

A Pirate and Predator

The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud

By Brian Garfield

From the March 2012 Issue

Big Bad Boat

Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters – The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship

By Patrick Bishop

From the April 2014 Issue

Pujoling a Fast One

The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent

By Jason Webster