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
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
May 2002 Issue Richard Overy How One Man Escaped the Embrace of the Nazis Defying Hitler: A Memoir By Sebastian Haffner 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
May 2008 Issue M R D Foot In Daily Peril Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War By Roderick Bailey (ed) LR
August 2007 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Betrayed From Within and Without A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer By Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941–1942 By Chava Pressburger (ed), (Translated by Elena Lappin) LR
August 2007 Issue Carole Angier The Pounding of Silence Peeling the Onion By Günter Grass (Translated by Michael Henry Heim) LR
March 2007 Issue Carole Angier The Living Reminders The Forger By Cioma Schönhaus The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto By Susan Lee Pentlin (ed) LR
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
April 2005 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Looking Back in Horror No Escape: My Young Years Under Hitler's Shadow By W John Koch In My Brother's Shadow By Uwe Timm (Translated from the German by Anthea Bell) LR
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