From the November 2000 Issue Cases of Shell Shock A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994 By Ben Shephard LR
From the November 2023 Issue Britain’s Colony in Europe Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945–49 By Daniel Cowling LR
From the September 2022 Issue Age of the iPad General Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine By Lawrence Freedman LR
From the June 2021 Issue Refugees into Royal Marines X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis By Leah Garrett LR
From the May 2020 Issue From the Kaiser to Kohl A History of 20th-Century Germany By Ulrich Herbert (Translated from German by Ben Fowkes) LR
From the March 2019 Issue Trial by Firestorm Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945 By Aaron William Moore LR
From the December 2018 Issue Won in the Post The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov LR
From the May 2018 Issue Fighting Tomorrow’s Battles Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq By Ashley Jackson LR
From the May 2002 Issue How One Man Escaped the Embrace of the Nazis Defying Hitler: A Memoir By Sebastian Haffner LR
From the October 2017 Issue More by Luck Than Judgement The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany By David King LR
From the February 2017 Issue The Price of Peace The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt By Peter Clarke LR
From the December 2016 Issue High Hitler Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany By Norman Ohler (Translated by Shaun Whiteside) LR
From the September 2016 Issue The Guns of November The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917–1923 By Robert Gerwarth LR
From the February 2003 Issue The Plebeian and the Patrician Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership By Andrew Roberts LR
From the June 2016 Issue Once More unto the Breach Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941 By Daniel Todman LR
From the March 2016 Issue Last Words Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933–49 By David Cesarani LR
From the October 2015 Issue Breaches of Civilisation The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945 By Heinrich August Winkler (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
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