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
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
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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: