Book Reviews

BBC History Magazine

2023

Spectator

Spectator Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies remains an engima

2023

Times Literary Supplement

The incediary diaries of Mussolini’s son-in-law

2022

Spectator

The sheer tedium of life at Colditz

2022

Spectator

The defiance of the ‘ghetto girls’ that resisted the Nazis

2021

Spectator

The great betrayal of Ethel Rosenberg

2021

Spectator

Out-scooping the men: six women reporters of the Second World War

2021

Spectator

Sleeping with the enemy; the wartime story of French triple agent ‘La Chatte’

2021

Spectator

The pram in the hall was one spy’s best friend

2020

Spectator

Monuments to the Second World War are looking increasingly dodgy

2020

Spectator

The Lady with the Limp: homage to the one-legged Virginia Hall, SOE’s ‘most dangerous’ agent

2020

ARGO The Magazine of the Hellenic Society

Remembering Jewish Salonica 1941-44

2020

Spectator

How Britain conned the US into entering the war

2019

Spectator

Female partisans played a vital role in fighting fascism in Italy — but it was a thankless task

2019

Telegraph

Sabotage and intelligence: meet the women who made D-Day happen

2019

Telegraph

The Free State of Bavaria: the extraordinary rise and fall of the ‘writers’ republic’

2019

Spectator

Anita Leslie: sparkling socialite with the Croix de Guerre

2018

Spectator

The CIA, the Vietnam deserters and the aptly named Operation Chaos

2018

Telegraph

Aviation’s first love triangle scandal: The story of The Lost Pilots

2018

Telegraph

'I don’t feel guilty. Why would I?’: the chilling memories of Goebbels’s secretary

2018