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Tom Stern
The Verification Code
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
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Michael Tanner
Critical Lack of Theory
Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919–1929
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Patrick O'Connor
Paris Black and White
Brassaï: No Ordinary Eyes
By Alain Sayag & Annick Lionel-Marie
Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s
By Petrine Archer-Straw
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September 2002 Issue
Brenda Maddox
For Love or Money
Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise
By Sally Cline
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
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Richard Davenport-Hines
File Bodies
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age
By Timothy Phillips
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December 2016 Issue
Lucy Moore
Ladies Bountiful
The Riviera Set, 1920-1960: The Golden Years of Glamour and Excess
By Mary S Lovell
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses between the Wars
By Siân Evans
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Sean French
Here’s To You, Mrs Hemingway
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Gillian Greenwood
Dead-Pan Passion
Out of This Century
By Peggy Guggenheim
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Patrick O'Connor
Poor Boy makes Good in Boomtime USA
Merchant of Dreams: Louis B Mayer, MGM and the Secret Hollywood
By Charles Higham
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August 2015 Issue
Richard Overy
Conquer & Divide
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
By Susan Pedersen
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March 2015 Issue
Victoria Glendinning
Party People
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing
By Anna Thomasson
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July 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
It Wasn’t That Bad
‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
By Martin Pugh
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February 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A Short, Sharp War
Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe
By Adam Zamoyski
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October 2007 Issue
Alexander Waugh
Flapping About
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation, 1918–1940
By D J Taylor
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March 2005 Issue
David Pryce-Jones
Kooks & Conservatives
Hurrah for the Blackshirts!
By Martin Pugh
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December 2012 Issue
Dominic Sandbrook
Did She Or Didn’t She?
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By John Carter Wood
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Anne Sebba
Grace under Pressure
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Jay Parini
How the Party Started
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By Sarah Churchwell
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