A Dark Book in August

This month's online Book Review: Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse (Bodley Head) 432 pages

August in the northern hemisphere  always  has always struck me as having something of a tail-end feel about it, not least in the publishing industry. Long-past are the pre-Christmas heavy-hitters with 'star' authors or their 'star' topics hogging the front-desks. Gone too is the excitement of the new titles out in spring and early summer. Many readers have taken the few good hits, in paperback, off to...