Annika Mombauer

Scholars in Arms

Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War

By Perry Anderson

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August 2023 Issue

Harold James

Fuzzing It Up

The Economic Government of the World 1933–2023

By Martin Daunton

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September 2019 Issue

Christian Goeschel

Portraits in Tyranny

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

By Frank Dikötter

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June 2019 Issue

Phil Baker

Travels with My Cactus

Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

By Mike Jay

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April 2018 Issue

Christopher Ross

Glad to be Gai

A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir

By Ian Buruma

September 2017 Issue

Christopher Andrew

The Big Chill

The Cold War: A World History

By Odd Arne Westad

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July 2017 Issue

Simon Heffer

Viral News

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By Laura Spinney

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March 2001 Issue

Kathleen Burk

How Much do We Want to Know?

The First World War, Volume I: To Arms

By Hew Strachan

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December 2015 Issue

Simon Heffer

Annus Horribilis

1916: A Global History

By Keith Jeffery

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

By Andrew Roberts

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October 2015 Issue

Richard Overy

Breaches of Civilisation

The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945

By Heinrich August Winkler (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

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March 2003 Issue

Michael Burleigh

The State We’re In

The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat

By Roger Scruton

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February 2004 Issue

Richard Overy

The Terrors of Totalitarianism

Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century

By Tzvetan Todorov (Trans David Bellos)

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August 2008 Issue

Jonathan Sumption

‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’

A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein

By John Laughland

LR

August 2008 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Pizza Politics

Alpha Dogs: How Political Spin Became a Global Business

By James Harding

LR

June 2008 Issue

M R D Foot

‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

LR

March 2008 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

The Innocent Dead

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War

By Hugo Slim

LR

October 2007 Issue

Sujit Saraf

The Shock of the Bomb

The Shock of the Old: Technology in Global History since 1900

By David Edgerton

LR

September 2007 Issue

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

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September 2007 Issue

Raymond Seitz

Milestones of Diplomacy

Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century

By David Reynolds

LR

August 2007 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Dark Content

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

By Bernard Wasserstein

LR

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