The Second World War – Couldn't I Just Tell You

Rainy cobblestone street with cyclists, umbrellas, bicycles, and distant church spires

Review: The Foreign Correspondent – Alan Furst

Posted on 25/10/202625/10/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Spy, The Second World War

Enjoyably gripping tale of spies and skulduggery - Christina Koning - The Times

Review: The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz – Denis Avey with Rob Broomby

Posted on 27/09/2026 by Speesh in Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust

Exceptional and very moving

Three people walking over rubble in heavily damaged city street with smoking ruins

Review: Endgame 1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby

Posted on 20/09/202620/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front

The massive Soviet campaigns, rather than just the Western Allies' D-Day landings, ultimately destroyed Nazism and allowed Stalin to dictate the post-war order

Long narrow corridor with four closed wooden prison cell doors on one side and small barred windows near the ceiling on the other side

Review: Auschwitz A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Miklos Nyiszli

Posted on 19/09/2026 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust

'The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available' - The New York Review of Books

Review: Black Earth – Timothy Snyder

Posted on 20/04/202414/02/2026 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, Conflict, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

"Wholly readable and utterly persuasive" - Observor

Review: Breakout At Stalingrad – Heinrich Gerlach

Posted on 31/01/202031/01/2020 by Speesh in Fiction, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Second World War

Written by one who was actually there

Review: Red Icon – Sam Eastland

Posted on 25/07/2019 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, The Soviet Union, World War II Germany

A master at work

Review: SS-GB – Len Deighton

Posted on 09/09/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War

Leonardo da Deighton.

Review: Silesian Station – David Downing

Posted on 27/08/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Between The Wars, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War, Spy

It's what they aren't, that makes them what they are.

Review: Zoo Station – David Downing

Posted on 04/06/201305/09/2023 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War, Spy

"A extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany on the eve of war", says CJ Sansom author of 'Winter in Madrid'. He's not wrong.