Lucy Moore

Our Man in Ajmer

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

By Nandini Das

February 2022 Issue

Thomas Blaikie

Gold, Frankincense & Mozzarella

Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents

By Paul Brummell

LR

July 2020 Issue

Thomas Blaikie

Peace Maker & Flower Arranger

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

By Capricia Penavic Marshall

July 2020 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Out with Battleships, In with Bakeries

Soft Power: The New Great Game

By Robert Winder

LR

December 2019 Issue

Mark Jarrett

Edmund Burke’s Number One Fan

Metternich: Strategist and Visionary

By Wolfram Siemann (Translated from German by Daniel Steuer)

LR

November 2019 Issue

Richard Cockett

Motherhood & Mediation

The Education of an Idealist

By Samantha Power

LR

May 1999 Issue

Antonia Fraser

Living On Mail Order

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Katie Hickman

LR

August 1999 Issue

Michael Portillo

Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement

Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party

By Graham Stewart

May 2019 Issue

Humphrey Hawksley

The Biggest Fish in the Sea

The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century

By Parag Khanna

The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean

By Bertil Lintner

LR

May 2019 Issue

Lawrence Freedman

The Incompleat Diplomat

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

By George Packer

April 2019 Issue

Raymond Seitz

Blessed is the Peacemaker

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

By William J Burns

LR

November 2017 Issue

Xan Smiley

Mission Statements

Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat

By Christopher Mallaby

LR

October 2017 Issue

Miranda Seymour

Corners of Foreign Fields

British Embassies: Their Diplomatic and Architectural History

By James Stourton

June 2016 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Passages to India

Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31

By Stuart Ball (ed)

LR

June 2016 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Whispers in Downing Street

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

By Richard J Aldrich, Rory Cormac

LR

June 2016 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Anxiety of Influence

Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age

By Tom Fletcher

LR

October 2015 Issue

Piers Brendon

Learning the Lambeth Walk

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed) (Translated by Tatiana Sorokina & Oliver Ready)

September 2015 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Are We Intruding?

Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention

By Simon Jenkins

LR

August 2015 Issue

Piers Brendon

Toff Negotiators

Go-Betweens for Hitler

By Karina Urbach

LR

August 2015 Issue

Richard Overy

Conquer & Divide

The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

By Susan Pedersen

LR

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