March 2017 Issue Norman Lebrecht Playing Dirty The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich By Fritz Trümpi (Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg)
July 1991 Issue Kathleen Tynan A Nice, Old-Fashioned Sort of Girl The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler By Susanne Keegan LR
April 2003 Issue David Cesarani A Chronicle of Suffering and Spirituality The Pity of It All: A Portrait of German Jews 1743-1933 By Amos Elon 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
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