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From the July 2009 Issue Reticence & Rectitude Attlee’s Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character By Frank Field (ed) LR
From the September 2008 Issue What the Sovereign Saw Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II By A N Wilson LR
From the February 2007 Issue From Hon To Rebel Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford By Peter Y Sussman (ed) LR
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