John Mortimer

Nothing So Decadent as Pemberton Billing

Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War

By Philip Hoare

March 2001 Issue

Kathleen Burk

How Much do We Want to Know?

The First World War, Volume I: To Arms

By Hew Strachan

LR

February 2017 Issue

Richard Overy

The Price of Peace

The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt

By Peter Clarke

LR

November 2016 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Voice from the Western Front

From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15

By Charles Abel Smith (ed)

LR

January 1982 Issue

Max Egremont

Sad Poet

Siegfried Sassoon; Diaries 1920-1922

By Rupert Hart-Davis (ed)

LR

September 2016 Issue

Richard Overy

The Guns of November

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917–1923

By Robert Gerwarth

LR

June 2016 Issue

Norman Stone

Country on the Move

Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe

By Kevin J McNamara

LR

May 2016 Issue

Norman Stone

Spoils of Victory

Lawrence of Arabia’s War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

By Neil Faulkner

LR

May 2016 Issue

Nicholas Stargardt

The Great Imitator

Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939

By Volker Ullrich (Translated by Jefferson Chase)

LR

December 2015 Issue

Simon Heffer

Annus Horribilis

1916: A Global History

By Keith Jeffery

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

By Andrew Roberts

LR

September 2015 Issue

Alexander Watson

Self-Inflicted Wounds

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949

By Ian Kershaw

LR

October 2003 Issue

Richard Overy

Churchill’s Pet Boffin

Prof: The Life of Frederick Lindemann

By Adrian Fort

LR

March 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

Warlords At Sea

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

By Robert K Massie

LR

March 2015 Issue

Norman Stone

What a Carve Up

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920

By Eugene Rogan

LR

March 2015 Issue

Lucy Moore

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

LR

May 2004 Issue

Max Egremont

The View Over the Parapet

Tommy: The British Soldier on The Western Front 1914-1918

By Richard Holmes

LR

August 2004 Issue

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