December 2021 Issue Rana Mitter Day of Infamy Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War By Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman LR
April 2020 Issue Malcolm Murfett Isle of the Dead Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War By Saul David LR
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 LR
August 2015 Issue Andrew Roberts Brothers in Arms Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War By Niall Barr LR
April 2015 Issue Tim Stanley Escape from Neutrality The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II By Nicholas Wapshott LR
August 2004 Issue William Palmer War Story The Boys' Crusade: American GIs In Europe - Chaos and Fear In World War Two By Paul Fussell LR
April 2009 Issue Caroline Moorehead Oncle Sam Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44 By Charles Glass 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
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
November 2007 Issue Brenda Maddox On the Stein Trail Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm LR
May 2006 Issue 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. LR
April 2006 Issue Charles Wheeler After The Bomb American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan By Robert Harvey LR
June 2013 Issue Caroline Moorehead La Grande Peur What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France By Mary Louise Roberts LR
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