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Botch on the Rhine

A meticulous and justly angry account of one of the great cock-ups of World War II

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

by Antony Beevor

May 28, 2020 issue

Staying On

The British in India: A Social History of the Raj

by David Gilmour

April 4, 2019 issue

Letter

Nikil Saval

Whose Raj?

June 6, 2019 issue

Smoke and Mirrors

The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage

by John Hughes-Wilson

Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States

by Loch K. Johnson

In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies

by Howard Blum

The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

by Jefferson Morley

September 27, 2018 issue

Yesterday’s Parties

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

by Hilary Spurling

July 19, 2018 issue

Imagining the Unimaginable

On War and Writing

by Samuel Hynes

May 10, 2018 issue

Splendid Isolation

‘Dunkirk’ and the myths of Brexit

Dunkirk

a film directed by Christopher Nolan

Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory

by Michael Korda

October 12, 2017 issue

What’s New About the War?

When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940

by Robin Prior

Eisenhower’s Armies: The American–British Alliance During World War II

by Niall Barr

Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge

by Antony Beevor

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War, 1939–1945

by Alan Allport

Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War

by Linda Hervieux

Omaha Beach on D-Day

y Jean-David Morvan and Séverine Tréfouël, with drawings by Dominique Bertail, photographs by Robert Capa, and text by Bernard Lebrun, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin

France 1940: Defending the Republic

by Philip Nord

Eisenhower’s Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France

by Benjamin F. Jones

The Rise of Germany, 1939–1941: The War in the West

by James Holland

The Battle for Moscow

by David Stahel

India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War

by Yasmin Khan

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March 10, 2016 issue

How the Germans Closed Ranks Around Hitler

The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945: Citizens and Soldiers

by Nicholas Stargardt

Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe

by Michael Neiberg

Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

by Jonathan Schneer

October 22, 2015 issue

The Most Terrible of Hitler’s Creatures

Heinrich Himmler

by Peter Longerich, translated from the German by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe

Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

by Robert Gerw

February 9, 2012 issue

War by Fops and Fools

The Crimean War: A History

by Orlando Figes

The Crimean War in the British Imagination

by Stefanie Markovits

June 9, 2011 issue

The Most Influential Weapon of Our Time

The Gun

by C. J. Chivers

February 10, 2011 issue

The Turkish-German Jihad

The Berlin–Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power

by Sean McMeekin

December 9, 2010 issue

The Truth About the Foreign Legion

Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests, 1870–1935

by Martin Windrow

Voices of the Foreign Legion: The History of the World's Most Famous Fighting Corps

by Adrian D. Gilbert

October 14, 2010 issue

Drawing the Wrong Lesson

Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History

by Margaret MacMillan

March 11, 2010 issue

Letter

Jason Epstein

A World War Truce Without a Victory?

April 8, 2010 issue

A Very Chilly Victory

Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945

by Andrew Roberts

August 13, 2009 issue

A Farewell to Arms

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919

by Mark Thompson

June 11, 2009 issue

Germans Confront the Nazi Past

Germany and the Second World War, Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society, 1939–1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival

edited for the Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany and Jörg Echternkamp, translated from the German by Derry Cook-Radmore and others

February 26, 2009 issue

Letter

David Kahn

The U-Boat Enigma

July 2, 2009 issue

The Most Evil Emperor

Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe

by Mark Mazower

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

by Ian Kershaw

October 23, 2008 issue

Up Against ‘the Finest Soldiers in the World’