September 2019 Issue Christian Goeschel Portraits in Tyranny How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century By Frank Dikötter LR
September 2017 Issue Christopher Andrew The Big Chill The Cold War: A World History By Odd Arne Westad LR
July 2017 Issue Simon Heffer Viral News Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World By Laura Spinney LR
March 2001 Issue Kathleen Burk How Much do We Want to Know? The First World War, Volume I: To Arms By Hew Strachan LR
December 2015 Issue Simon Heffer Annus Horribilis 1916: A Global History By Keith Jeffery Elegy: The First Day on the Somme By Andrew Roberts LR
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) LR
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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 Raymond Seitz Milestones of Diplomacy Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century By David Reynolds LR
September 2006 Issue Michael Burleigh A Churchillian Task A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 By Andrew Roberts LR
September 2012 Issue Robert Bickers Beyond the Great Wall Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 By Odd Arne Westad LR
May 2013 Issue Jane Ridley On the Precipice 1913: The World before the Great War By Charles Emmerson LR
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