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
LR
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
LR
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
LR
September 2023 Issue
Jane Ridley
Prime Ministers & Paupers
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
By Simon Heffer
LR
July 2023 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
Tale of Two Tyrannies
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
By Daniel Finkelstein
LR
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
LR
March 2023 Issue
Richard Vinen
Best of Adversaries
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement
By G C Peden
LR
March 2023 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
The Princess, the Mystic & the Masseur
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
By Ian Buruma
LR
February 2023 Issue
Zareer Masani
Golfing for Victory
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler
By R T Howard
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