Biting Hitler’s Ankles

Four recent books on the Second World War

From the March 2024 Issue

Unhappy Hunting Ground

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbours

By Erika Howsare

LR

From the September 2023 Issue

A Shop for all Besoms

Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the Village Hardware Shop

By Tom Fort

LR

From the April 2020 Issue

The Best Fun You Can Have Standing Up

Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain

By Tom Fort

LR

From the November 2019 Issue

Tears of a Wombat Owner

The Animal's Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000 Year-Old Love Story

By Jacky Colliss Harvey

LR

From the August 2019 Issue

Courage under Fire

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

By Lynne Olson

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall

By Sonia Purnell

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

By Jack Fairweather

LR

From the February 2019 Issue

Paws for Thought

The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend

By Bryan Sykes

LR

From the June 2018 Issue

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them

Yeti: An Abominable History

By Graham Hoyland

LR

From the March 2017 Issue

No Elephant in the Room

Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa

By Keith Somerville

LR

From the November 2016 Issue

Voice from the Western Front

From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15

By Charles Abel Smith (ed)

LR

From the October 2016 Issue

Cataholics & Catophobes

The Trainable Cat: How to Make Life Happier for You and Your Cat

By John Bradshaw & Sarah Ellis

Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

By Peter P Marra & Chris Santella

LR

From the July 2016 Issue

Turf Wars

Mr Darley’s Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life – A History of Racing in Twenty-Five Horses

By Christopher McGrath

LR

From the May 2016 Issue

Mixing with Vixens

Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain

By Lucy Jones

LR

From the February 2016 Issue

Lions & Tigers & Bears

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

By Christopher Plumb

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100–1837

By Caroline Grigson

LR

From the December 2015 Issue

Long Live the King?

Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

By Craig Packer

LR

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