June 2017 Issue Jane Ridley Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938–1945 By Emily Russell (ed) LR
July 2015 Issue Anna Reid Ration Book The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl’s Life in the Siege of Leningrad By Valentin Kovalchuk, Aleksandr Rupasov & Aleksandr Chistikov (edd) (Translated by Amanda Love Darragh)
August 2006 Issue Anne de Courcy A Girl’s Own Story Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF By Joan Rice 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
December 2011 Issue Adam Sisman A Historian’s Heart The Wartime Journals By Hugh Trevor-Roper (Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines) 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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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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