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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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
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