For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & History

July 2019 Issue

Richard Vinen

On the Edge of Glory

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

By Simon Reid-Henry

June 2019 Issue

Selina Hastings

Dancing While France Burned

Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Love & the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d’Azur, 1930–1944

By Anne de Courcy

June 2019 Issue

Richard V Reeves

Cry Freedom

A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

By Adam Gopnik

April 2019 Issue

Adam Sisman

Phoney Peace

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

By Tim Bouverie

April 2019 Issue

John Keay

In Cold Blood

Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre

By Kim A Wagner

The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

By Anita Anand

March 2019 Issue

Christopher Coker

The Long Arm of the Chairman

Maoism: A Global History

By Julia Lovell

March 2019 Issue

Marc Mulholland

Line of Troubles

The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics

By Diarmaid Ferriter

February 2019 Issue

Timothy W Ryback

Crime & Impunity

Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

By Mary Fulbrook

February 2019 Issue

Norman Stone

Empire on Its Uppers

The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957

By Derek Leebaert

Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East

By James Barr

February 2019 Issue

Graham Seal

Shamans in Arms

A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War

By Owen Davies

December 2018 Issue

Richard Overy

Won in the Post

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

December 2018 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Yours Radically

Greetings From the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia

By Tobie Mathew

November 2018 Issue

Simon Heffer

Let the Bells Ring Out

Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

By Guy Cuthbertson

November 2018 Issue

Christopher Ross

From Edo Bay to Abenomics

Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

By Christopher Harding

October 2018 Issue

Piers Brendon

Cometh the Hour

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By Andrew Roberts

Churchill: The Statesman as Artist

By David Cannadine (ed)

October 2018 Issue

Frances Cairncross

De-Industrial Revolution

What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain

By James Hamilton-Paterson

October 2018 Issue

Christopher Goscha

Apocalypse How?

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975

By Max Hastings

September 2018 Issue

Robert Gildea

Continental Shifts

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950–2017

By Ian Kershaw

August 2018 Issue

Piers Brendon

From Great Power to PLC

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-century History

By David Edgerton

August 2018 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Cousins in Arms

The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal – The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance

By Frances Welch