For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Postwar history

February 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

A Turbulent Continent

The Struggle for Europe: The History of the Continent since 1945

By William I Hitchcock

February 2016 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

‘Save Europe Now’

The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

October 2015 Issue

Joe Moran

Culture Clubs

The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination

By Dominic Sandbrook

October 2008 Issue

Vernon Bogdanor

The Long View

Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy

By David Marquand

David Cesarani

The Root of Conflict

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

By Benny Morris

November 2007 Issue

Frederick Taylor

Dramatic Divide

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War

By Patrick Wright

November 2007 Issue

David Butler

At the Ballot Box

Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy Since 1918

By Kevin Jefferys

August 2007 Issue

Richard Overy

The Fury that Followed the Fall

After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift

By Giles MacDonogh

Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation

By David Stafford

April 2012 Issue

Alan Allport

Days of Vengeance

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

By Keith Lowe

February 2005 Issue

Carole Angier

The Language of Destruction

The End: Hamburg 1943

By Hans Erich Nossack (Translation and Foreword by Joel Agee)

October 2012 Issue

Victor Sebestyen

Stalin Supreme

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956

By Anne Applebaum

October 2012 Issue

Keith Lowe

Revenge & Repercussions

Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

By R M Douglas

April 2014 Issue

Martin Evans

Changing of the Guard

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

By Martin Thomas

March 2013 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Decisions, Decisions

Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy

By Gill Bennett

March 2013 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Curtain Falls

Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War

By Robert Gellately

March 2013 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Between Bilbo & Balbo

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

By Ira Katznelson

April 2013 Issue

Simon Heffer

Messy Break-Ups

Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World – 1945–65

By Michael Burleigh