June 2020 Issue Donald Rayfield Hitler’s More Willing Executioners Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff LR
August 1987 Issue John Whiston Metamorphoses Maus: A Survivor’s Tale By Art Spiegelman The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals: The Lost History of Europe’s Animal Trials By E P Evans 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
June 2016 Issue Jonathan Kirsch The Road to Pitchipoï But You Did Not Come Back By Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Translated by Sandra Smith) Asylum By Moriz Scheyer 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
July 2015 Issue David Cesarani Tales of Degradation and Despair KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps By Nikolaus Wachsmann LR
November 2003 Issue Carole Angier Hard to Satisfy Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered By Ruth Kluger LR
June 2004 Issue David Cesarani The Germs of Genocide The Germs of Genocide By Christopher R Browning, Jürgen Matthäus LR
November 2004 Issue David Cesarani Knowing When To Run Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna By Peter Singer The Frank Family That Survived By Gordon F Sander LR
April 2009 Issue David Cesarani Testimony Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto By Samuel D Kassow LR
November 2008 Issue David Cesarani Oskar’s Story Searching for Schindler: A Memoir By Thomas Keneally 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
June 2008 Issue David Cesarani Lethal Indifference Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution By Ian Kershaw 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
June 2005 Issue Caroline Moorehead ‘Practising Science in Hell Itself’ After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 By Ben Shephard LR
April 2005 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Looking Back in Horror No Escape: My Young Years Under Hitler's Shadow By W John Koch In My Brother's Shadow By Uwe Timm (Translated from the German by Anthea Bell) 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
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