March 2025 Issue
Philip Snow
Death from the Clouds
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
By Richard Overy
February 2025 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
Moments of Reprieve
A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi
By Carlo Greppi (Translated from Italian by Howard Curtis)
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February 2025 Issue
Robert Gerwarth
Hitler’s Royal Welcome
The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration
By Stephan Malinowski (Translated from German by Jefferson Chase)
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November 2024 Issue
Nicholas Rankin
We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Oxford’s War 1939–1945
By Ashley Jackson
October 2024 Issue
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Ballads of the Blitz
Poetry of the Second World War
By Tim Kendall (ed)
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September 2024 Issue
Ella Fox-Martens
Girl at War
Earthly Creatures
By Stevie Davies
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September 2024 Issue
Richard Vinen
Tories on the Home Front
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War
By Kit Kowol
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August 2024 Issue
Jonathan Boff
Fortune Favours the Flexible
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, and How They Made War
By Phillips Payson O’Brien
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July 2024 Issue
Michael Bloch
Threepenny Republic
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918–1933
By Harald Jähner (Translated from German by Shaun Whiteside)
Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power
By Timothy W Ryback
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June 2024 Issue
Patrick Scrivenor
Biting Hitler’s Ankles
Four recent books on the Second World War
April 2024 Issue
Mark Cornwall
Deep in the Czechoslovak Quagmire
44 Days in Prague: The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe
By Ann Shukman
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March 2024 Issue
Philip Snow
Victors’ Justice?
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By Gary J Bass
February 2024 Issue
Stuart Jeffries
Anatomist of Evil
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
By Lyndsey Stonebridge
November 2023 Issue
Neil Gregor
Requiems for the Fallen
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
By Jeremy Eichler
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November 2023 Issue
Richard Overy
Britain’s Colony in Europe
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945–49
By Daniel Cowling
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September 2023 Issue
Jane Ridley
Prime Ministers & Paupers
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
By Simon Heffer
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July 2023 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
Tale of Two Tyrannies
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
By Daniel Finkelstein
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June 2023 Issue
Robert Bickers
Safe Haven China
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime Shanghai
By Rachel Meller
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June 2023 Issue
Munro Price
Vichy’s Long Shadow
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By Julian Jackson
April 2023 Issue
Jonathan Rée
Irresistible Arguments
The French Resistance and Its Legacy
By Rod Kedward
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The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
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Book reviews by Oleg Gordievsky
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The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
Stephen Smith - From Russia with Lucre
Stephen Smith: From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch
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The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945 has long been regarded as a historical watershed – but did it mark the start of a new era or the culmination of longer-term trends?
Philip Snow examines the question.
Philip Snow - Death from the Clouds
Philip Snow: Death from the Clouds - Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy
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