March 2014 Issue
Daniel Matlin
Both Sides of the Tracks
Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism
By Thomas Brothers
Duke: The Life of Duke Ellington
By Terry Teachout
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March 2014 Issue
Philip Mansel
Building a Kingdom
Faisal I of Iraq
By Ali A Allawi
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April 2014 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
One Kim after Another
North Korea Undercover: Inside the World’s Most Secret State
By John Sweeney
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April 2014 Issue
Seamus Perry
Stylish Mind
Essays and Reviews 1959–2002
By Bernard Williams
LR
April 2014 Issue
Robert Colls
Toil & Trouble
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
By Richard Benson
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010
By Selina Todd
LR
April 2014 Issue
Rupert Christiansen
Ladies and the Tramp
Charlie Chaplin
By Peter Ackroyd
LR
April 2014 Issue
Frank McLynn
Lights, Camera, Action
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
By Mark Harris
LR
April 2014 Issue
Richard Overy
Strength by Numbers
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age
By Archie Brown
LR
April 2014 Issue
Simon Heffer
More Claret than Red
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life
By John Campbell
LR
April 2014 Issue
Martin Evans
Changing of the Guard
Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire
By Martin Thomas
LR
April 2014 Issue
Jane Ridley
The Marriage Plot
The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal
By Robert Sackville-West
LR
April 2014 Issue
Nicholas Rankin
Pujoling a Fast One
The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent
By Jason Webster
LR
April 2014 Issue
Douglas Smith
The 23 Steps
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
By Helen Rappaport
LR
April 2014 Issue
Donald Sassoon
Only Half Marx
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life
By Stephen Parker
LR
February 2013 Issue
Kevin Jackson
Conversations on a Concrete Island
Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967–2008
By Simon Sellars & Dan O’Hara (ed)
LR
February 2013 Issue
J W M Thompson
Unparliamentary Behaviour
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
By Richard Davenport-Hines
LR
February 2013 Issue
Norman Stone
Staging the Revolutions
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
By Marci Shore
LR
February 2013 Issue
Michael Burleigh
At Sixes & Fives
Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire
By Calder Walton
LR
February 2013 Issue
David Cesarani
Listening In
Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying – The Secret World War II Tapes of German POWs
By Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer (Translated by Jefferson Chase)
LR
February 2013 Issue
Richard Overy
Unknown Soldiers
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
By Halik Kochanski
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