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) LR
February 2023 Issue Mary Fulbrook Many Faces of Genocide The Holocaust: An Unfinished History By Dan Stone LR
August 2022 Issue Caroline Moorehead Frontiers of Guilt Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends By Linda Kinstler LR
June 2020 Issue Donald Rayfield Hitler’s More Willing Executioners Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff LR
August 2019 Issue Patrick Scrivenor Courage under Fire Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler By Lynne Olson A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall By Sonia Purnell The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz By Jack Fairweather LR
September 2000 Issue Adam LeBor A Nice Little Earner The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering By Norman G Finkelstein LR
May 2016 Issue Caroline Moorehead Justice Defined East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity By Philippe Sands LR
March 2016 Issue Richard Overy Last Words Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933–49 By David Cesarani LR
September 2015 Issue Richard Overy Blood & Soil Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning By Timothy Snyder LR
December 2008 Issue Richard Overy The Memory of Suffering Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past By Neil Gregor LR
June 2008 Issue M R D Foot ‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’ Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization By Nicholson Baker LR
November 2007 Issue David Cesarani ‘My Soul Is Scorched’ The Year of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945 By Saul Friedländer LR
April 2007 Issue David Cesarani Return to Bolechow The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million By Daniel Mendelsohn LR
February 2006 Issue Michael Burleigh Rent-A-Moralists At Bay The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis By David G Dalin Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis By Ronald J Rychlak LR
June 2005 Issue Caroline Moorehead ‘Practising Science in Hell Itself’ After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 By Ben Shephard LR
September 2012 Issue David Cesarani Spoils of Persecution Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust By Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzińska Gross LR
March 2014 Issue David Cesarani The Drowned & the Saved The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews By Bernard Wasserstein Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis By Bo Lidegaard (Translated by Robert Maass) LR
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