From the October 2020 Issue Blowin’ in the Wind War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace By Martin Bell LR
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From the August 2017 Issue Cheering for Hitler The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit By Josh Ireland LR
From the July 2017 Issue Road to Abbottabad The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight By Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy LR
From the June 2017 Issue ‘A Wilderness of Wreckage’ The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice By Stuart H Newberger LR
From the October 2015 Issue Fighting Trauma Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace By Matthew Green LR
From the May 2015 Issue Goodbye to Helmand Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World By Christina Lamb The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan By Jack Fairweather Diary Rooms: Being Human on the Front Line in Afghanistan By Derek Eland LR
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From the May 2009 Issue Hard Times The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict By Peter Beaumont LR
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From the May 2008 Issue Mostly Bricks The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune By Steve Coll LR
From the April 2008 Issue Counting the Cost Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq By Patrick Cockburn The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes LR
From the April 2007 Issue An Occupation in Pieces The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace By Ali A Allawi LR
From the December 2011 Issue The Case for Intervention Can Intervention Work? By Gerald Knaus A War of Choice: The British in Iraq 2003–9 By Jack Fairweather Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan By Frank Ledwidge LR
From the June 2012 Issue All We Ever Do Is Fight Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them By David Keen LR
From the April 2013 Issue The Drone Delusion Warrior Geeks: How 21st-Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War By Christopher Coker LR
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