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May 2008 Issue M R D Foot In Daily Peril Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War By Roderick Bailey (ed) LR
April 2008 Issue Belinda Jack No Romance Wartime Notebooks: and Other Texts By Marguerite Duras, Edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, (Translated by Linda Coverdale) LR
February 2008 Issue Frederick Taylor Inside the Nightmare On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940–46 By Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg LR
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