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
March 1999 Issue Anne Applebaum Surviving the Polish Horror The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 By Wladyslaw Szpilman The Ice Road By Stefan Waydenfeld
July 2015 Issue David Cesarani Tales of Degradation and Despair KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps By Nikolaus Wachsmann LR
June 2003 Issue Claus Von Bulow Football and Facism Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football In Europe During The Second World War By Simon Kuper A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II By Emmy E Werner 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
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
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