September 2023 Issue Jane Ridley Prime Ministers & Paupers Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars By Simon Heffer LR
February 2023 Issue Alan Allport Cabinet Table Generals Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914–1945 By Robin Prior LR
November 2019 Issue Leo McKinstry A Sorry State Staring at God: Britain in the Great War By Simon Heffer LR
August 2018 Issue John Sutherland The Hazards of his Love-Bed Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to 'Good-bye to All That' (1895–1929) By Jean Moorcroft Wilson
March 2001 Issue Kathleen Burk How Much do We Want to Know? The First World War, Volume I: To Arms By Hew Strachan 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
May 2004 Issue Max Egremont The View Over the Parapet Tommy: The British Soldier on The Western Front 1914-1918 By Richard Holmes LR
April 2009 Issue Michael Burleigh His Glory Remains Warlord: Churchill at War, 1874–1945 By Carlo D’Este LR
June 2008 Issue Richard Toye A Liberal Lover The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life By Ffion Hague LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Washington The Outsider Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet By Jean Moorcroft Wilson LR
December 2007 Issue Max Egremont The Man and the Myth The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig By Gary Mead LR
August 2007 Issue Jane Ridley Day of the Spinster Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War By Virginia Nicholson LR
August 2007 Issue Max Egremont Terror of the Trenches World War One: A Short History By Norman Stone Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West By Arthur Graeme West (Introduction by Nigel Jones) LR
March 2014 Issue John Gray After the Fire The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century By David Reynolds LR
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