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• Seven Troop

  Andy McNab

  
  
   

• Apache

  Ed Macy

  
  
   

• Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, Britain's Oldest Man and the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

  Henry Allingham

  
  
   

• Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49

  
  
   

• Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

  Agnes Humbert

  
  
   

• The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

  Anne Frank

  
  
   

• Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler

  
  
   

• Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918

  Thomas Cairns Livingstone

  
  
   

• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'

  
  
   

• If This Is a Man / The Truce

  Primo Levi

  
  
   

• Cocky: The Rise and Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain's Biggest Drugs Baron

  Tony Barnes, Richard Elias, Peter Walsh

  
  
   

• Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

  Ben Macintyre

  
  
   

• A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945

  Anonymous

  
  
   

• Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)

  George Orwell

  
  
   

• Eight Lives Down

  Chris Hunter

  
  
   

• The Railway Man

  Eric Lomax

  
  
   

• Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chamber

  Filip Muller

  
  
   

• Sod That for a Game of Soldiers

  Mark Eyles-Thomas

  
  
   

• Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden

  Steve Coll

  
  
   

• Hitler

  Ian Kershaw

  
  Is there anything fresh to be said about Hitler? He is an icon, maybe the icon, of the 20th century. He was a failed artist with Wagnerian fantasies, a slob who could not get up in the morning, but he exposed the frailties of modern civilisation in a way that should still make us giddy. How? Was it his doing, or German society's?

  Professor Ian Kershaw has produced a work of definitive scholarship that will be the standard for years to come. It was badly needed; since Alan Bullock's 1952 classic Hitler: A Study In Tyranny and Joachim Fest's Hitler (originally published in 1973) there has been much valuable research, all of which Kershaw seems to have read (there are 200 pages of notes). Add to this the media (and, by extension, public) fascination with the nature of evil, and a resurgent interest in right-wing groups, and this book becomes long overdue.

  Kershaw deals rigorously with the bones of his subject's life. He has no truck with psychological padding, and calmly demolishes most of the quasi-facts that have sprung up--if in doubt, he allows space within the chronology. His description of the path to the Chancellorship, which was always more messy than messianic, is painful to behold but gripping to follow, and concludes in 1936 with Hitler at the height of his "Hubris".

  This is an important study of the character of power, as clearly written as it is intellectually engaging. --David Vincent