From the April 2018 Issue Demonstrate or Procreate The Long ’68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies By Richard Vinen
From the September 2014 Issue Boys in the Barracks National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 By Richard Vinen LR
From the April 2009 Issue No Turning Back Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era By Richard Vinen LR
From the April 2006 Issue Swept Under The Carpet Bad Faith: The Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland By Carmen Callil The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation By Richard Vinen LR
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