What did they do in the war?
Angus Calder, 20 June 1985
The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945
by John Terraine.
Hodder, 841 pp., £14.95, March 1985,0 340 26644 9 Show More
by John Terraine.
Hodder, 841 pp., £14.95, March 1985,
The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book
by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt.
Viking, 804 pp., £25, May 1985,0 670 80137 2 Show More
by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt.
Viking, 804 pp., £25, May 1985,
’45: The Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic
by Charles Whiting.
Century, 192 pp., £7.95, March 1985,0 7126 0812 5 Show More
by Charles Whiting.
Century, 192 pp., £7.95, March 1985,
In the Ruins of the Reich
by Douglas Botting.
Allen and Unwin, 248 pp., £9.95, May 1985,9780049430365 Show More
by Douglas Botting.
Allen and Unwin, 248 pp., £9.95, May 1985,
1945: The World We Fought For
by Robert Kee.
Hamish Hamilton, 371 pp., £12.95, May 1985,0 241 11531 0 Show More
by Robert Kee.
Hamish Hamilton, 371 pp., £12.95, May 1985,
VE Day: Victory in Europe 1945
by Robin Cross.
Sidgwick, 223 pp., £12.95, May 1985,0 283 99220 4 Show More
by Robin Cross.
Sidgwick, 223 pp., £12.95, May 1985,
One Family’s War
edited by Patrick Mayhew.
Hutchinson, 237 pp., £10.95, May 1985,0 7126 0812 5 Show More
edited by Patrick Mayhew.
Hutchinson, 237 pp., £10.95, May 1985,
Poems of the Second World War: The Oasis Selection
edited by Victor Selwyn.
Dent, 386 pp., £12, May 1985,0 460 10432 2 Show More
edited by Victor Selwyn.
Dent, 386 pp., £12, May 1985,
Victory in Europe: D Day to VE Day
by Max Hastings and George Stevens.
Weidenfeld, 192 pp., £10.95, April 1985,0 297 78650 4 Show More
by Max Hastings and George Stevens.
Weidenfeld, 192 pp., £10.95, April 1985,
“... When, in War and Peace, young Nikolai Rostov first rides, into action with his fellow hussars against the French at Austerlitz, he feels that the longed-for time has come ‘to experience the intoxication of a charge’, about which he has heard so much. At first he is indeed elated, but then the unseen enemy suddenly becomes visible, Rostov’s horse is shot under him, there is ‘around him nothing but the still earth and the stubble ... ”
