October 2016 Issue Jeremy Lewis Hiding in Plain Sight Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi By Paddy Ashdown LR
September 2015 Issue Robert Tombs Occupation Hazards Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance By Robert Gildea LR
March 2003 Issue Allan Massie Caught By Surprise The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 By Julian Jackson LR
August 2014 Issue Gillian Tindall Sanctuary in the Mountains Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France By Caroline Moorehead LR
April 2009 Issue Caroline Moorehead Oncle Sam Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44 By Charles Glass LR
September 2008 Issue Allan Massie Paris Under the Swastika Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France By Agnes Humbert (Translated by Barbara Mellor) LR
February 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Not What It Seemed The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France By Simon Kitson (Translated by Catherine Tihanyi) LR
April 2006 Issue Simon Heffer Swept Under The Carpet Bad Faith: The Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland By Carmen Callil The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation By Richard Vinen LR
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