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Stoddard Martin
Son of Mann
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann
By Frederic Spotts
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February 2016 Issue
Andrew Hussey
The Great Escape
33 Days
By Léon Werth (Translated by Austin Denis Johnston)
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September 2015 Issue
Robert Tombs
Occupation Hazards
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
By Robert Gildea
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August 2015 Issue
Piers Brendon
Toff Negotiators
Go-Betweens for Hitler
By Karina Urbach
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July 2015 Issue
David Cesarani
Tales of Degradation and Despair
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
By Nikolaus Wachsmann
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June 2015 Issue
Richard Overy
His Master’s Voice
Goebbels: A Biography
By Peter Longerich (Translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes & Lesley Sharpe)
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March 2003 Issue
Allan Massie
Caught By Surprise
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
By Julian Jackson
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June 2003 Issue
Claus Von Bulow
Football and Facism
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football In Europe During The Second World War
By Simon Kuper
A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II
By Emmy E Werner
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September 2003 Issue
David Cesarani
Tormented At The End
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
By Victor Klempere, Martin Chalmers (trans, ed)
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November 2003 Issue
Daniel Johnson
Sharpening The Knives
The Coming of the Third Reich
By Richard J Evans
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December 2003 Issue
David Cesarani
Violence and Vegetarianism
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
By John Cornwell
The Devil's Disciples: The Lives and Times of Hitler's Inner Circle
By Anthony Read
Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
By Traudl Junge, Melissa Müller (ed), (trans. Anthea Bell)
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December 2003 Issue
Richard Overy
A City Up In Arms
Rising '44: 'The Battle For Warsaw'
By Norman Davies
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April 2015 Issue
David Cesarani
The Eagle & the Prophet
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War
By David Motadel
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March 2015 Issue
David Motadel
Berlin to Bombay
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire
By Kris Manjapra
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March 2015 Issue
Neil Gregor
The Dachau Indictment
Hitler’s First Victims and One Man’s Race for Justice
By Timothy W Ryback
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April 2004 Issue
Richard Overy
He Regretted Having Been So Benevolent
Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
By Joachim Fest
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June 2004 Issue
David Cesarani
The Germs of Genocide
The Germs of Genocide
By Christopher R Browning, Jürgen Matthäus
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June 2004 Issue
Andrew Roberts
Duel of the Despots
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
By Richard Overy
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August 2004 Issue
Richard Overy
A Petty Bureaucrat, A Colossal Criminal
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes
By David Cesarani
September 2004 Issue
Andrew Roberts
Appeasing Adolf
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, The Nazis and the Road to War
By Ian Kershaw
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