May 2020 Issue John Adamson Born to Marry The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power By Martyn Rady
July 2019 Issue Veronica Buckley Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV By Philip Mansel LR
April 2004 Issue Geordie Greig The Miniature Monarch Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric By Veronica Buckley LR
August 2008 Issue Roger Crowley Taking on the Turk The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe By Andrew Wheatcroft LR
June 2013 Issue John Adamson Showing Her Metal The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War By Tryntje Helfferich LR
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