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
May 2018 Issue Keith Lowe Along Hell’s Highway Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 By Antony Beevor
August 1997 Issue Peter Padfield More a Database Than a Book Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 By Clay Blair LR
February 2009 Issue Caroline Moorehead A Fearful Freedom Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–1945 By William I Hitchcock LR
October 2008 Issue Paul Addison Gabbo & Bovril Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945 By Nicholas Rankin LR
March 2008 Issue Raleigh Trevelyan The Red Hot Rake Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War 1944–45 By James Holland LR
October 2007 Issue Virginia Ironside War and Paint Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception in World War II By Henrietta Goodden LR
June 2007 Issue Christopher Coker Tipping Points Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940–1941 By Ian Kershaw LR
December 2012 Issue James Holland Masters of Disguise The Phantom Army of Alamein: How Operation Bertram and the Camouflage Unit Hoodwinked Rommel By Rick Stroud LR
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