May 2020 Issue R J B Bosworth Duce Vita Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943 By John Gooch LR
July 2019 Issue Mark Cornwall A Tale of Betrayal? The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia By P E Caquet LR
November 2017 Issue Caroline Moorehead Witnesses of the Persecution Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People By Julia Boyd LR
April 2016 Issue Caroline Moorehead Farewell to Arms Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 By Adam Hochschild The Last Days of the Spanish Republic By Paul Preston LR
July 2008 Issue Richard Overy It Wasn’t That Bad ‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars By Martin Pugh LR
May 2013 Issue Paul Addison People Watching The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949 By James Hinton LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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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.
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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: