November 2023 Issue Richard Overy 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
December 2021 Issue Rana Mitter Day of Infamy Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War By Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman LR
June 2021 Issue Richard Overy Refugees into Royal Marines X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis By Leah Garrett LR
September 2020 Issue Malcolm Murfett Leaping into the Abyss Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War – July 1937–May 1942 By Richard B Frank LR
June 2020 Issue Allan Massie A Class Act A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Rée, British Agent in the French Resistance By Jonathan Rée (ed) LR
May 2020 Issue R J B Bosworth Duce Vita Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943 By John Gooch LR
April 2020 Issue Malcolm Murfett Isle of the Dead Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War By Saul David LR
April 2020 Issue Karina Urbach Delusions of a Dictator Hitler: Downfall 1939–45 By Volker Ullrich (Translated from German by Jefferson Chase) LR
May 2013 Issue Paul Addison People Watching The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949 By James Hinton LR
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