April 2009 Issue
David Cesarani
Testimony
Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
By Samuel D Kassow
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April 2009 Issue
David Stafford
Zero Hour
Germany 1945: From War to Peace
By Richard Bessel
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April 2009 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
Oncle Sam
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44
By Charles Glass
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April 2009 Issue
James Holland
Men-of-War
The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935–1949
By Simon Ball
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April 2009 Issue
Michael Burleigh
His Glory Remains
Warlord: Churchill at War, 1874–1945
By Carlo D’Este
LR
February 2009 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
A Fearful Freedom
Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–1945
By William I Hitchcock
LR
November 2008 Issue
David Cesarani
Oskar’s Story
Searching for Schindler: A Memoir
By Thomas Keneally
LR
November 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A Dirty Conflict
World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
By Laurence Rees
LR
September 2008 Issue
Allan Massie
Paris Under the Swastika
Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France
By Agnes Humbert (Translated by Barbara Mellor)
LR
September 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
At the Edge of War
Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis
By David Faber
LR
October 2008 Issue
Norman Stone
Downfall
The Third Reich at War
By Richard J Evans
LR
October 2008 Issue
Frederic Raphael
Revenge of the Second-Rate
The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
By Frederic Spotts
LR
October 2008 Issue
Paul Addison
Gabbo & Bovril
Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945
By Nicholas Rankin
LR
October 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A War Quartet
Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
By Andrew Roberts
LR
May 2008 Issue
Nigel Jones
Behind the Wire
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler
By Margarete Buber-Neumann
LR
May 2008 Issue
M R D Foot
In Daily Peril
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War
By Roderick Bailey (ed)
LR
June 2008 Issue
M R D Foot
‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
By Nicholson Baker
LR
June 2008 Issue
Nigel Jones
Sparks of Humanity
The Zookeeper's Wife
By Diane Ackerman
LR
June 2008 Issue
David Cesarani
Lethal Indifference
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
By Ian Kershaw
LR
June 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
General Plan East
Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
By Mark Mazower
LR
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