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
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 LR
September 2018 Issue Robert Gildea Continental Shifts Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950–2017 By Ian Kershaw LR
August 1994 Issue Anne Applebaum They Cannot Be Blamed for Hitler’s Excesses Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea By Giles MacDonogh LR
February 2017 Issue Richard Overy The Price of Peace The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt By Peter Clarke LR
September 2016 Issue Adam Zamoyski Grand Designs The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 By Richard J Evans LR
February 2009 Issue Caroline Moorehead A Fearful Freedom Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–1945 By William I Hitchcock LR
September 2008 Issue Richard Overy At the Edge of War Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis By David Faber LR
June 2008 Issue Richard Overy General Plan East Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe By Mark Mazower 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
June 2007 Issue Christopher Coker Tipping Points Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940–1941 By Ian Kershaw LR
April 2012 Issue Norman Stone Timetables May Change The Lost History of 1914: Why the Great War Was Not Inevitable By Jack Beatty LR
March 2005 Issue Richard Holmes Two Teutonic Titans The Warlords: The Campaigns of Hindenburg and Ludendorff By John Lee LR
October 2012 Issue Norman Stone The Hour of Their Death The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 By Christopher Clark 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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