From the April 2011 Issue The Whole Five Hundred Million of Us Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War By David Edgerton LR
From the August 2010 Issue Day Of The Dead Moon Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift By Ian Knight LR
From the July 2009 Issue Beyond Courage Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century By William Philpott LR
From the July 2006 Issue The Pen and The Sword Captain Professor: The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard By Michael Howard LR
From the March 2005 Issue Two Teutonic Titans The Warlords: The Campaigns of Hindenburg and Ludendorff By John Lee LR
From the April 2005 Issue Bellicose and Brave Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield By Max Hastings LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
@RankinNick gives the question his best shot.
Nicholas Rankin - We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
Fiona Sampson - Changed in a Minute
Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
On porky rolodexes and the persistence of elite reproduction, for the @Lit_Review: