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Arnhem: The Battle for Survival
by John Nichol and Tony Rennell

David Stafford is impressed with an account of Operation Market Garden, a bold attempt to outflank the Germans in 1944

Heinrich Himmler: A Life
by Peter Longerich

Roger Moorhouse commends a scholarly biography of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust

Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
by Juan Pujol Garcia and Nigel West

Michael S Goodman reads a memoir of an exceptional spy

Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors
by Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes’s magnificent history of British soldiering is a fitting conclusion to a remarkable career, says Gary Sheffield

The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved
by Jonathan Fenby

Malcolm Crook reads a fascinating biography of Charles de Gaulle

Kursk – The Greatest Battle: Eastern Front 1943
by Lloyd Clark

Michael Jones admires an excellent account of the battle that finally broke Nazi Germany

Horror in the East
by Laurence Rees

Rob Attar on a penetrating account of Japanese brutality in the Second World War

Churchill
by Ashley Jackson

Evan Mawdsley enjoys a new biography of Britain’s wartime leader that considers his lengthy military and political career

Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
by Asa Briggs

Roger Moorhouse is charmed by the wartime memoir of a Bletchley Park insider

Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives
by Peter Caddick-Adams

Robert Lyman applauds a masterful joint biography of two of the Second World War’s most celebrated generals