For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Second World War

Rachel Armitage

The Bigger Picture

The Director

By Daniel Kehlmann (Translated from German by Ross Benjamin)

Richard Overy

Blind Eye to Genocide

A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust

By Richard Breitman

April 2025 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Massacre of the Innocents

The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini and a True Story of Murder

By Thomas Harding

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)

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)

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)

September 2024 Issue

Ella Fox-Martens

Girl at War

Earthly Creatures

By Stevie Davies

September 2024 Issue

Richard Vinen

Tories on the Home Front

Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War

By Kit Kowol

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

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

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

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

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

September 2023 Issue

Jane Ridley

Prime Ministers & Paupers

Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars

By Simon Heffer

July 2023 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Tale of Two Tyrannies

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein