Patrick Scrivenor

Biting Hitler’s Ankles

Four recent books on the Second World War

February 2024 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Better Dead Than Red

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By Anna Reid

LR

February 2024 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

The Drowned & the Saved

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By Julian Borger

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By József Debreczeni (Translated from Hungarian by Paul Olchváry)

LR

November 2023 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Ten Years That Shook the World

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914–1924

By Robert Service

LR

November 2023 Issue

Brendan Simms

The Kalashnikov & the Drone

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts

LR

July 2021 Issue

Malcolm Murfett

The Human Thing

Why War?

By Christopher Coker

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

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

February 2000 Issue

Frank McLynn

An Archer Could Beat the Knight in Armour

Medieval Warfare: A History

By Maurice Keen (ed)

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

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)

February 2009 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

A Fearful Freedom

Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–1945

By William I Hitchcock

LR

August 2008 Issue

Patrick Hennessey

Pull Up a Sandbag

A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan

By James Fergusson

LR

August 2008 Issue

Adrian Weale

Murkywater

War PLC: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary

By Stephen Armstrong

LR

August 2008 Issue

Roger Crowley

Taking on the Turk

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe

By Andrew Wheatcroft

LR

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