Historiography of the Christian Churches and the Third Reich has not devoted much attention to Baptists. This present work understands why this has been the case. They did not feature in the ‘mainline’ ecclesiastical or political narratives of the European countries in which they existed. Rightly judging that there is, nevertheless, an interesting and worthwhile ‘minority’ story to tell, Bernard Green, a Baptist minister well-versed in European Baptist affairs, embarked on an account to fill this gap. Unfortunately, personal circumstances made it impossible for him to complete what he began and the present volume has been expertly brought to completion by John Briggs and Faith Bowers. In particular, they have moved on to consider how European Baptists came to terms, in the immediate post-war years, with their varying outlooks and different experiences – the European Baptist Federation was formed in 1948. There are therefore short sketches of Baptist reactions in the occupied or co-operating states of central, northern, south-eastern and western Europe (not to mention the Channel Islands). The political contextualisation which prefaces each of these accounts is sometimes a little shaky (for example, it is stated that Yugoslavia after 1918 was made up of republics) but there is summary information here which is not easily accessible anywhere else. However, and properly, the heart of the volume is concerned with the Baptists of Germany. It is bluntly and correctly stated that British and German Baptists differed immensely in their views on Church and State. It is not surprising, therefore, that it was not easy to achieve a common understanding of what the Third Reich represented and how it should be responded to. The account of these differences is enhanced by drawing upon previously unpublished material. Particularly interesting are the diary observations of L. G. Champion, an English Baptist, mingling in German Baptist circles in 1931–4 while pursuing doctoral studies in Heidelberg and Marburg. In 1948 he went back to report on Baptists in the British Zone of Occupation. He found among the pastors he met a reluctance to acknowledge that Hitler was an evil power, though it was admitted that a telegram of congratulations sent to Hitler on his escape from assassination in July 1944 had been a mistake. There was clearly much to discuss on this occasion – in as fraternal a manner as possible. The behaviour of the small Baptist communities across Europe may only represent a footnote in any comprehensive study of Europe and the Third Reich but it is a footnote worth having and this volume has provided it.