August 2018 Issue Frances Wilson A Place in the Sun The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination By Robert Holland
October 2004 Issue Richard Hopton After Trafalgar Stopping Napoleon: War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean By Tom Pocock LR
May 2008 Issue Norman Hammond Emerging Eurozones Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000 By Barry Cunliffe LR
May 2008 Issue Jason Goodwin Pirate of the Middle Sea Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580 By Roger Crowley LR
December 2013 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Med Men The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World By Cyprian Broodbank LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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