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Empire on Its Uppers
The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957
By Derek Leebaert
Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
By James Barr
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From the December 2016 Issue
A Line in the Sand
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
By Christopher Simon Sykes
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From the June 2016 Issue
Country on the Move
Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
By Kevin J McNamara
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From the May 2016 Issue
Spoils of Victory
Lawrence of Arabia’s War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
By Neil Faulkner
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From the February 2016 Issue
Decorating the Eagle’s Nest
Hitler at Home
By Despina Stratigakos
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From the April 2003 Issue
A Sinister Clown
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
By William Taubman
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From the June 2003 Issue
Soviet Horror
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Concentration Camps
By Anne Applebaum
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From the March 2015 Issue
What a Carve Up
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920
By Eugene Rogan
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From the August 2004 Issue
Coming from Behind and Catching Us Up
The Turks Today
By Andrew Mango
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From the September 2004 Issue
Centre of Tension
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews
By Mark Mazower
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From the December 2014 Issue
Crimes of the Kaiser
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900–1941
By John C G Röhl (Translated by Sheila de Bellaigue and Roy Bridge)
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From the August 2014 Issue
Building Mitteleuropa
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918
By Alexander Watson
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From the April 2011 Issue
On Red Alert
Russia’s Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall
By Jonathan Haslam
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From the December 2010 Issue
Off The Mark
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation
By Adam Fergusson
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From the October 2008 Issue
Downfall
The Third Reich at War
By Richard J Evans
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From the February 2007 Issue
Mice That Roared
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro
By Elizabeth Roberts
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From the April 2006 Issue
The People of the Pontus
Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
By Bruce Clark
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From the December 2005 Issue
A KGB Field Day
The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World
By Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
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From the May 2014 Issue
Another Fine Mess
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Scott Anderson
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From the April 2012 Issue
Timetables May Change
The Lost History of 1914: Why the Great War Was Not Inevitable
By Jack Beatty
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