For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Military history & Second World War & Britain

February 2023 Issue

Alan Allport

Cabinet Table Generals

Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914–1945

By Robin Prior

December 2018 Issue

Richard Overy

Won in the Post

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

March 2018 Issue

Neil Armstrong

Earning Their Wings

Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe

By Gordon Corera

Claus Von Bulow

Churchill Wanted to Hang Them Out of Hand

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials

By Telford Taylor

August 2015 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Brothers in Arms

Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War

By Niall Barr

August 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

The Weight of History

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

By James Holland

February 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

After The Firestorm

Dresden

By Fredrick Taylor

March 2004 Issue

Peter Weston

Special Operations

The Next Moon: The Remarkable True Story of a British Agent Behind The Lines in Wartime France

By André Hue, Ewen Southby-Tailyour

April 2007 Issue

Frederick Taylor

Grim Gallantry

Bomber Boys

By Patrick Bishop

Leo Mckinstry

Raid over Troubled Water

The Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr

By James Holland

February 2005 Issue

Tim Heald

Courage In The Clouds

Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944–45

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell

Bomber Crew: Taking on the Reich

By John Sweetman