For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Biography & Political history

R W Johnson

Heroism & Homicide

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

By Jonny Steinberg

September 2022 Issue

Anne Perkins

Machiavelli in a Gannex

Harold Wilson: The Winner

By Nick Thomas-Symonds

Christopher Hitchens

Enoch Who Hurt Me So Dreadfully

The Lives of Enoch Powell

By Patrick Cosgrave

December 2017 Issue

Tim Stanley

Tricky Questions

Richard Nixon: The Life

By John A Farrell

December 2017 Issue

Richard Overy

Art of the Deal

Franklin D Roosevelt: A Political life

By Robert Dallek

February 1998 Issue

Beryl Bainbridge

Not Too Bad

Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

By Brian Moynahan

October 2016 Issue

Mary Kenny

Dedicated Followers of Fascism

Fascist in the Family: The Tragedy of John Beckett MP

By Francis Beckett

Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce

By Colin Holmes

March 2004 Issue

Mark Almond

Moscow’s Media Mogul

The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Müzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West

By Sean McMeekin

August 2007 Issue

Christopher Coker

They Deserved Each Other

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

By Robert Dallek

October 2013 Issue

Paul Addison

Speaking for England

The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches

By Richard Toye

Churchill and Empire

By Lawrence James

October 2013 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

The Man Who Lost the Peace

Wilson

By A Scott Berg

October 2013 Issue

Alex von Tunzelmann

Last Hours at La Moneda

Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

By Oscar Guardiola-Rivera