July 2023 Issue Caroline Moorehead Tale of Two Tyrannies Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival By Daniel Finkelstein LR
August 2021 Issue Timothy W Ryback Escape from Ploiesti The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border By Frances Stonor Saunders 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
November 2019 Issue Martin Bell An Uncommon Correspondent Mr Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima By Jeremy Treglown
January 1980 Issue Jennifer Birkett Drieu La Rochelle: Double Agent Drieu La Rochelle By Pierre Andreu & Frédéric Grover Secret Journal and Other Writings By Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (Edited by Alistair Hamilton) LR
February 2018 Issue Anne Sebba Flight of a Bookseller No Place to Lay One's Head By Françoise Frenkel (Translated by Stephanie Smee) LR
December 1998 Issue Niall Ferguson Safe at Last My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin By Peter Gay LR
March 1999 Issue Anne Applebaum Surviving the Polish Horror The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 By Wladyslaw Szpilman The Ice Road By Stefan Waydenfeld
May 2002 Issue Richard Overy How One Man Escaped the Embrace of the Nazis Defying Hitler: A Memoir By Sebastian Haffner LR
September 2001 Issue David Cesarani Reading with Primo The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology By Primo Levi, Peter Forbes (trans.)
July 2016 Issue Valerie Grove Down Memory Lane Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory By Keggie Carew LR
June 2016 Issue Jonathan Kirsch The Road to Pitchipoï But You Did Not Come Back By Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Translated by Sandra Smith) Asylum By Moriz Scheyer LR
February 2016 Issue Andrew Hussey The Great Escape 33 Days By Léon Werth (Translated by Austin Denis Johnston) LR
April 1985 Issue Christopher Hitchens The Craggy, Gruff Guy The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two By Studs Terkel LR
August 2003 Issue Max Egremont A Man Apart Storm of Steel By Ernst Jünger (Translated by Michael Hofmann) LR
November 2003 Issue Carole Angier Hard to Satisfy Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered By Ruth Kluger LR
August 2006 Issue Anne de Courcy A Girl’s Own Story Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF By Joan Rice LR
November 2008 Issue David Cesarani Oskar’s Story Searching for Schindler: A Memoir By Thomas Keneally LR
September 2008 Issue Allan Massie Paris Under the Swastika Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France By Agnes Humbert (Translated by Barbara Mellor) LR
May 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Behind the Wire Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler By Margarete Buber-Neumann LR
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