For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & First World War

June 1998 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

First Attempt

Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

March 2018 Issue

Jane Rye

Hidden Figures

Joseph Gray’s Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Nicholas Stargardt

The Great Imitator

Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939

By Volker Ullrich (Translated by Jefferson Chase)

April 2009 Issue

Michael Burleigh

His Glory Remains

Warlord: Churchill at War, 1874–1945

By Carlo D’Este

June 2008 Issue

Richard Toye

A Liberal Lover

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Ffion Hague

December 2007 Issue

Anton La Guardia

A Hero of the Hashemites

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace

By Avi Shlaim

December 2007 Issue

Max Egremont

The Man and the Myth

The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig

By Gary Mead

Adam LeBor

Report from Sarajevo

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

By Tim Butcher

February 2013 Issue

Ariane Bankes

Front Lines

David Jones in the Great War

By Thomas Dilworth

February 2014 Issue

Anne Sebba

Three Graces

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By Claudia Renton

October 2013 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

The Man Who Lost the Peace

Wilson

By A Scott Berg

November 2013 Issue

Jane Ridley

At Their Last Post

Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves

By David Crane