October 2020 Issue
Adrian Weale
Blowin’ in the Wind
War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace
By Martin Bell
LR
September 2020 Issue
Malcolm Murfett
Leaping into the Abyss
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War – July 1937–May 1942
By Richard B Frank
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April 2020 Issue
Joanna Bourke
Victims without Borders
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
By Christina Lamb
LR
August 2019 Issue
Patrick Scrivenor
Courage under Fire
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
By Lynne Olson
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall
By Sonia Purnell
The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
By Jack Fairweather
LR
June 2019 Issue
Bijan Omrani
Rhinos of War
The Snow Leopard Project and Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
By Alex Dehgan
LR
February 2000 Issue
Frank McLynn
An Archer Could Beat the Knight in Armour
Medieval Warfare: A History
By Maurice Keen (ed)
LR
October 2018 Issue
Adrian Weale
Death at Wireless Ridge
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
By Helen Parr
LR
May 2018 Issue
Keith Lowe
Along Hell’s Highway
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
By Antony Beevor
May 2018 Issue
Jerry White
River of Empire
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
By Margarette Lincoln
LR
November 1998 Issue
Sebastian Faulks
How They Saw It
To the Last Man: Spring 1918
By Lyn Macdonald
LR
November 2017 Issue
Christopher Coker
All Tomorrow’s Battles
The Future of War: A History
By Lawrence Freedman
LR
August 1997 Issue
Peter Padfield
More a Database Than a Book
Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942
By Clay Blair
LR
March 2017 Issue
David Pryce-Jones
Shock and Awe
The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East
By Guy Laron
LR
May 2016 Issue
Timothy Brook
Making a Bang
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
By Tonio Andrade
LR
April 2016 Issue
C P W Gammell
Slaughter over the Shatt al-Arab
The Iran–Iraq War
By Pierre Razoux (Translated by Nicholas Elliott)
December 2015 Issue
Christopher Ross
Martial Artistry
Kendo: Culture of the Sword
By Alexander C Bennett
LR
October 2015 Issue
Adrian Weale
Fighting Trauma
Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace
By Matthew Green
LR
July 2015 Issue
Matthew Green
‘Find, Fix, Finish’
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
By Chris Woods
March 2003 Issue
Aidan Hartley
Beauty and the Beast
Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan
By Deborah Scroggins
LR
April 2003 Issue
Mark Almond
Survivors’ Tales
On the Natural History of Destruction
By W G Sebald
LR
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