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First World War

February 2019 Issue

Graham Seal

Shamans in Arms

A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War

By Owen Davies

November 2018 Issue

Simon Heffer

Let the Bells Ring Out

Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

By Guy Cuthbertson

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

June 1998 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

First Attempt

Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

March 2018 Issue

Uta Frith

Cracks in the Glass Ceiling

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

By Patricia Fara

March 2018 Issue

Jane Rye

Hidden Figures

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

By Mary Horlock

November 1998 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

How They Saw It

To the Last Man: Spring 1918

By Lyn Macdonald

December 2017 Issue

Robert Gerwarth

Endgame

1917: War, Peace, and Revolution

By David Stevenson

November 2017 Issue

Michael Alexander

Remembering ‘For the Fallen’

November 2017 Issue

Dominic Green

Double Takes

Grand Illusions: American Art & the First World War

By David M Lubin

June 1998 Issue

Brian Phillips

When Neutrality Becomes a Cause for Scandal

Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

By Caroline Moorehead

August 2017 Issue

Saul David

He Scorned the British

African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa

By Robert Gaudi

June 1997 Issue

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

February 2017 Issue

Richard Overy

The Price of Peace

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

By Peter Clarke

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)

January 1982 Issue

Max Egremont

Sad Poet

Siegfried Sassoon; Diaries 1920-1922

By Rupert Hart-Davis (ed)

September 2016 Issue

Richard Overy

The Guns of November

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

By Robert Gerwarth

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

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