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November 2023 Issue Neil Gregor Requiems for the Fallen Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance By Jeremy Eichler 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 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
April 2002 Issue Caroline Moorehead His Writing Was Love The Double Bond: Primo Levi – A Biography By Carole Angier Primo Levi By Ian Thompson 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
October 1996 Issue Christopher Hitchens No Cause to be Proud of our Victor’s Justice Nuremberg: The Last Battle By David Irving 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
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
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
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