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What The Thunder Said
The Blitz: The British Under Attack
By Juliet Gardiner
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From the May 2010 Issue
Taking Sides
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War
By Norman Stone
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From the April 2010 Issue
Dear Diary…
Nine Wartime Lives
By James Hinton
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From the December 2009 Issue
Our Secret History
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
By Christopher Andrew
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From the November 2009 Issue
Cosmopolitanauts
The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story
By Mary-Kay Wilmers
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From the October 2009 Issue
‘So You’re Back Then’
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
By Alan Allport
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From the June 2009 Issue
Ice-Cold in Coyoacan
Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
By Bertrand Patenaude
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From the April 2009 Issue
Past Imperfect
The Uses and Abuses of History
By Margaret MacMillan
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From the December 2008 Issue
The Memory of Suffering
Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
By Neil Gregor
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From the November 2008 Issue
A Dirty Conflict
World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
By Laurence Rees
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From the July 2008 Issue
It Wasn’t That Bad
‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
By Martin Pugh
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From the September 2008 Issue
At the Edge of War
Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis
By David Faber
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From the October 2008 Issue
A War Quartet
Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
By Andrew Roberts
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From the June 2008 Issue
General Plan East
Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
By Mark Mazower
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From the February 2008 Issue
A Short, Sharp War
Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe
By Adam Zamoyski
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From the December 2007 Issue
War and Progress
Liberation or Catastrophe? Reflections on the History of the Twentieth Century
By Michael Howard
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From the October 2007 Issue
War in Asia
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45
By Max Hastings
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From the September 2007 Issue
Twentieth Century Monsters
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
By Robert Gellately
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From the August 2007 Issue
The Fury that Followed the Fall
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift
By Giles MacDonogh
Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation
By David Stafford
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From the March 2007 Issue
‘Are We Beasts?’
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945
By Jörg Friedrich
Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943
By Keith Lowe
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