For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Second World War & Russia & the Soviet Union & History

November 2019 Issue

Anna Reid

Feeding the Eight Million

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine

By Douglas Smith

December 2018 Issue

Richard Overy

Won in the Post

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

July 2017 Issue

Daniel Beer

Mothers, Daughters, Soldiers

Avenging Angels: Soviet Women Snipers on the Eastern Front (1941 - 1945)

By Lyuba Vinogradova

The Unwomanly Face of War

By Svetlana Alexievich

August 2006 Issue

Oleg Gordievsky

Under Siege

Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

By Rodric Braithwaite

November 2008 Issue

Richard Overy

A Dirty Conflict

World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

By Laurence Rees

June 2008 Issue

Nigel Jones

Sparks of Humanity

The Zookeeper's Wife

By Diane Ackerman

August 2007 Issue

Evan Mawdsley

Eastern Front

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War – A Modern History

By Chris Bellamy

Richard Overy

A Curious Correspondence

My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin

By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Daniel Beer

Surrounded Sound

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

By Brian Moynahan

St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past

By Catriona Kelly