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
November 2017 Issue Xan Smiley Mission Statements Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat By Christopher Mallaby LR
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
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)
August 2015 Issue Richard Overy Conquer & Divide The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire By Susan Pedersen LR
March 2014 Issue Christopher Coker Out of Step with History The Kennan Diaries By Frank Costigliola (ed) LR
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