September 2004 Issue
Andrew Roberts
Appeasing Adolf
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, The Nazis and the Road to War
By Ian Kershaw
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August 2014 Issue
Richard Overy
Their Enemy’s Enemy
The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941
By Roger Moorhouse
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February 2009 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Friendly Fascists
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
By Jonah Goldberg
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November 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A Dirty Conflict
World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
By Laurence Rees
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September 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
At the Edge of War
Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis
By David Faber
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October 2008 Issue
Norman Stone
Downfall
The Third Reich at War
By Richard J Evans
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October 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A War Quartet
Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
By Andrew Roberts
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May 2008 Issue
Nigel Jones
Behind the Wire
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler
By Margarete Buber-Neumann
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June 2008 Issue
David Cesarani
Lethal Indifference
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
By Ian Kershaw
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June 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
General Plan East
Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
By Mark Mazower
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September 2007 Issue
Richard Overy
Twentieth Century Monsters
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
By Robert Gellately
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September 2007 Issue
Simon Heffer
The Master & The Fuhrer
The Wagner Clan
By Jonathan Carr
Winnie and Wolf
By A N Wilson
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June 2007 Issue
Allan Massie
Panic in Paris
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940
By Hanna Diamond
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April 2006 Issue
David Cesarani
Foiling The Führer
Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Führer
By Roger Moorhouse
In the Bunker with Hitler: 23 July 1944 – 29 April 1945
By Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven with François d’Alençon (Translated by John Gilbert)
LR
December 2011 Issue
David Cesarani
Frau Führer
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler
By Heike B Görtemaker (Translated by Damion Searls)
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June 2012 Issue
Richard Overy
The Mind of Evil
The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts
By Daniel Pick
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July 2012 Issue
David Cesarani
Dear Führer…
Letters to Hitler
By Henrik Eberle (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall; English edition edited &introduced by Victoria Harris)
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