Steve Donoghue, "A hard look at the Second World War that keeps some things out of sight," The National, 17 June, reviews Michael Burleigh's Moral Combat: A History of World War II.

Timothy Snyder, "How Hitler Could Have Won," NYT, 17 June, reviews Andrew Roberts's The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War.

David Drake, "The artistic life of occupied Paris," TLS, 15 June, reviews Alan Riding's And the Show Went On: Cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris.

John Simon, "Escaping Hitler, Cracking Up in L.A.," NYT, 17 June, reviews Evelyn Juers's House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann.