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Book Reviews by subject:
History & Europe

February 2024 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

The Drowned & the Saved

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By József Debreczeni (Translated from Hungarian by Paul Olchváry)

August 2023 Issue

Damian Le Bas

Home Is Where the Hatred Is

Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear

By Klaus-Michael Bogdal

Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History

By Jeremy Harte

Tim Blanning

Emperors, Mystics & Tomcats

The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By Martyn Rady

March 2023 Issue

Piers Brendon

I Believe in Yesterday

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By Timothy Garton Ash

December 2022 Issue

David Gelber

Coming from America

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By Caroline Dodds Pennock

August 2022 Issue

Jonathan Sumption

In Sickness and in Wealth

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

By James Belich

March 2022 Issue

David Armitage

The Long Road to Maastricht

The Pursuit of Europe: A History

By Anthony Pagden

February 2022 Issue

David N Myers

Butchery in the Bloodlands

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

By Jeffrey Veidlinger

November 2021 Issue

Michael Pye

Wine, Women & Pointed Shoes

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

By Bart Van Loo (Translated from Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier)

November 2021 Issue

Anthony Pagden

Swords into Summit Meetings

Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union

By Stella Ghervas

February 2021 Issue

Levi Roach

A Family Business

Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe

By Robert Bartlett

February 1982 Issue

Elizabeth Longford

The Princess and the Prussian

The Other Victoria

By Andrew Sinclair

July 2019 Issue

Richard Vinen

On the Edge of Glory

Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017

By Simon Reid-Henry

Anthony Pagden

Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By Geoffrey Parker

March 2019 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Neither France Nor Germany

Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country

By Simon Winder

December 2018 Issue

Robert Mayhew

When Terminator Pigs Roamed

Europe: A Natural History

By Tim Flannery

September 2018 Issue

Robert Gildea

Continental Shifts

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950–2017

By Ian Kershaw

August 1994 Issue

Anne Applebaum

They Cannot Be Blamed for Hitler’s Excesses

Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea

By Giles MacDonogh

December 1993 Issue

Nathaniel Waugh

Among the New Teutonic Knights in Gdansk

Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe

By Eva Hoffman

February 2017 Issue

Richard Overy

The Price of Peace

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

By Peter Clarke