From the November 2024 Issue Legends of the Phantom Rider El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary By Nora Berend
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From the November 2023 Issue Lighthouse of the Mediterranean Alexandria: The City that Changed the World By Islam Issa LR
From the June 2023 Issue View from the Camel’s Back Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa By Barry Cunliffe LR
From the August 2022 Issue Apostate in the Archive A History of Water, Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History By Edward Wilson-Lee LR
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