August 1999 Issue Michael Portillo Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party By Graham Stewart
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
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