November 2019 Issue Anna Reid Feeding the Eight Million The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine By Douglas Smith LR
December 2018 Issue Richard Overy Won in the Post The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov LR
July 2017 Issue Daniel Beer Mothers, Daughters, Soldiers Avenging Angels: Soviet Women Snipers on the Eastern Front (1941 - 1945) By Lyuba Vinogradova The Unwomanly Face of War By Svetlana Alexievich
August 2006 Issue Oleg Gordievsky Under Siege Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War By Rodric Braithwaite LR
November 2008 Issue Richard Overy A Dirty Conflict World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West By Laurence Rees LR
August 2007 Issue Evan Mawdsley Eastern Front Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War – A Modern History By Chris Bellamy LR
May 2006 Issue Richard Overy A Curious Correspondence My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. LR
May 2014 Issue Daniel Beer Surrounded Sound Leningrad: Siege and Symphony By Brian Moynahan St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past By Catriona Kelly LR
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