June 2018 Issue Jonathan Steinberg Massacre of the Innocents Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History By Steven J Zipperstein LR
December 1993 Issue Nathaniel Waugh Among the New Teutonic Knights in Gdansk Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe By Eva Hoffman LR
June 2000 Issue Anna Reid Among the Mad Clerics Why Angels Fall: A Journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo By Victoria Clark
February 2016 Issue Anna Reid Between West & East The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine By Serhii Plokhy In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine By Tim Judah Thinking with the Blood: Scenes from Ukraine’s Revolution By Owen Matthews LR
December 2003 Issue Simon Sebag Montefiore Mercy Mission The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire By Khassan Baiev LR
August 2006 Issue Allan Massie Regarding Rudolf The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague By Peter Marshall LR
August 2006 Issue Adam LeBor The Battle for Budapest Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 – How the Hungarians Tried To Topple Their Soviet Masters By Victor Sebestyen LR
October 2012 Issue Victor Sebestyen Stalin Supreme Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 By Anne Applebaum LR
February 2013 Issue Norman Stone Staging the Revolutions The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe By Marci Shore LR
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