December 2020 Issue
Luke Daly-Groves
They Had a Theory of Everything
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
By Richard J Evans
LR
December 2020 Issue
Karina Urbach
All the Führer’s Barons
Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance
By Stephan Malinowski (Translated from German by Jon Andrews)
November 2020 Issue
Keith Lowe
The Unauthorised Version
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War – 1938–1941
By Alan Allport
LR
November 2020 Issue
Farzana Shaikh
Caught Between Allah & America
The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
By Owen Bennett-Jones
The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto
By Victoria Schofield
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation
By Declan Walsh
November 2020 Issue
David Blow
Best of Enemies
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
By John Ghazvinian
LR
November 2020 Issue
Dan Richards
To Everest in a Biplane
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
By Ed Caesar
LR
October 2020 Issue
Helen Graham
They Went to Spain
The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
By Giles Tremlett
LR
October 2020 Issue
David Gelber
Economist & Autocrat
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die
By Tom Gallagher
October 2020 Issue
Lucy Lethbridge
The Woolworths Poltergeist
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story from 1930s England
By Kate Summerscale
October 2020 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
It’s a Tough Neighbourhood
The Origins of the Arab–Iranian Conflict: Nationalism & Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars
By Chelsi Mueller
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East
By Kim Ghattas
LR
September 2020 Issue
Rana Mitter
One Country, One System
Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town
By Barbara Demick
July 2020 Issue
Kate Dossett
Jazz Age Rebels
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
By Saidiya Hartman
LR
July 2020 Issue
Jonathan Meades
Lest We Forget
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
By Keith Lowe
June 2020 Issue
Norma Clarke
A Right Racket
A People’s History of Tennis
By David Berry
LR
June 2020 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Hitler’s More Willing Executioners
Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust
By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff
LR
June 2020 Issue
Alexander Watson
Aflame with Anarchy
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination, and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia
By Jonathan Schneer
November 1918: The German Revolution
By Robert Gerwarth
June 2020 Issue
Michael White
A Magazine or a Cocktail Party?
10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator 1828–2020
By David Butterfield
May 2020 Issue
Richard Overy
From the Kaiser to Kohl
A History of 20th-Century Germany
By Ulrich Herbert (Translated from German by Ben Fowkes)
LR
May 2020 Issue
R J B Bosworth
Duce Vita
Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943
By John Gooch
LR
April 2020 Issue
Malcolm Murfett
Isle of the Dead
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
By Saul David
LR
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