For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Richard Vinen

From the October 2023 Issue

Foes in High Places

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

By David Reynolds

From the September 2023 Issue

Dates with Destiny

Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss

By Steve Richards

From the August 2023 Issue

Which Side Are You On?

Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85

By Robert Gildea

From the April 2023 Issue

One Day in October

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

By Rory Carroll

From the March 2023 Issue

Best of Adversaries

Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement

By G C Peden

From the October 2022 Issue

Kim Kardashian of Westminster

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries, 1943–57

By Simon Heffer (ed)

From the May 2022 Issue

The Past is Another Country

Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

By Hannah Rose Woods

From the April 2022 Issue

Drinks with Galtieri

Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina’s Wars with Britain and Itself

By Julian Manyon

From the March 2022 Issue

Brave Old World

A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

By Peter Hennessy

From the October 2021 Issue

The Miner’s Lament

Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

By Jeremy Paxman

The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain

By Huw Beynon & Ray Hudson

From the August 2021 Issue

Behind the Cactus Plants

War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918–1958

By Neil MacMaster

From the December 2020 Issue

The Devil’s Crop

The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria

By Owen White

From the July 2020 Issue

Blood, Toil, Tears & Brexit

The Churchill Myths

By Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz & Richard Toye

From the February 2020 Issue

History Boys

Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier

By D W Hayton

Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian

By Neil McKendrick

From the November 2019 Issue

The Iron Lady & the Little Men

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three – Herself Alone

By Charles Moore

From the October 2019 Issue

Kind of Blue

For the Record

By David Cameron

From the July 2019 Issue

On the Edge of Glory

Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017

By Simon Reid-Henry

From the July 2018 Issue

He Paid For His Own Electricity

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

By Julian Jackson

From the September 2015 Issue

Maggie Rising

Promised You a Miracle: UK80–82

By Andy Beckett

Thatcher’s Trial: Six Months that Defined a Leader

By Kwasi Kwarteng