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Louis Allen
Saburo Ienaga, Japan’s Last War
Japan's Last War
By Saburo Ienaga (Translated from Japanese by Frank Baldwin)
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Richard Overy
Aggression Goes South
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II General
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Alexander Lee
Young Guns
The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires
By Catherine Fletcher
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November 2025 Issue
Richard Vinen
Action This Day
Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942–1945
By Alan Allport
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David Stafford
Hungary’s War
The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945
By Adam LeBor
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October 2025 Issue
Anna Reid
Mission Impossible
Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One
By Nick Higham
September 2025 Issue
Richard Overy
Lines in the Sand
Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa
By Saul David
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May 2025 Issue
Richard Vinen
For Career & Country
National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain
By Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant & Joel Morley
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February 2025 Issue
Mathew Lyons
They Singed the Sultan’s Beard
The Great Siege of Malta
By Marcus Bull
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November 2000 Issue
Richard Overy
Cases of Shell Shock
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994
By Ben Shephard
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February 2023 Issue
Alan Allport
Cabinet Table Generals
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914–1945
By Robin Prior
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October 2022 Issue
Alexander Watson
Under the Double-Headed Dove
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
By Peter H Wilson
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September 2022 Issue
Richard Overy
Age of the iPad General
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
By Lawrence Freedman
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May 2021 Issue
Piers Brendon
Assault on the Nile
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
By Winston Spencer Churchill (Edited by James W Muller)
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July 2020 Issue
Paul Cartledge
Leonidas’s Last Stand
Thermopylae: Great Battles
By Chris Carey
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April 2020 Issue
Malcolm Murfett
Isle of the Dead
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By Saul David
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February 1990 Issue
Dennis Sewell
Ruc-Up
War Without Honour
By Fred Holroyd with Nick Burbridge
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February 1990 Issue
Toby Buchan
Trouble Is, It’s True
Norway 1940
By François Kersaudy
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November 1982 Issue
Mihir Bose
Big Bad Wolf
Threat from the East?
By Fred Halliday
The Afghan Syndrome
By Bhabani Sen Gupta
Roots of Confrontation in South Asia
By Stanley Wolpert
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November 1982 Issue
Francis Wheen
Fictive Propaganda
War Without Frontiers
By Andrew Osmond
A Very British Coup
By Chris Mullin
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