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Piers Brendon
Friends with Benefits
The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship
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Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
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Blair Worden
Mightier Than the Sword
William Penn: A Life
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Norman Stone
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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Richard Overy
Won in the Post
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov
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Gavin Esler
Besotted
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Jan Morris
The Sun Will Set
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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Andrew Roberts
Brothers in Arms
Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War
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Richard Overy
Conquer & Divide
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
By Susan Pedersen
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Bryan Appleyard
An Ocean Apart
Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
By Robert Kagan
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September 2003 Issue
Simon Heffer
Culture Clash
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
By David Caute
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Peter Washington
A Trinity In Verse
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Collected Poems
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Jessica Mann
The Secret Gardener
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Wilson
The Magnet of Love
Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed
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Richard Overy
A Dirty Conflict
World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
By Laurence Rees
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July 2008 Issue
Michael Burleigh
War Without End?
Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
By Ahmed Rashid
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September 2008 Issue
Dominic Sandbrook
King Dubya
The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy
By Frank Prochaska
In Defence of America
By Bronwen Maddox
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October 2008 Issue
Richard Overy
A War Quartet
Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
By Andrew Roberts
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March 2008 Issue
Paul Johnson
Ideas in Action
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments
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Raymond Seitz
Puritan’s Progress
Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home
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David Watkin
Trading Places
Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages
By John Harris
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