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Patricia Fara
Suffragettes with Stethoscopes
Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital
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Leo McKinstry
A Sorry State
Staring at God: Britain in the Great War
By Simon Heffer
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November 2019 Issue
Adam Zamoyski
They Shall Not Pass
The Fortess: The Great Siege of Przemyśl
By Alexander Watson
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October 2019 Issue
David Crane
They Thought It Was All Over
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917–1924
By Charles Emmerson
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September 2002 Issue
Thomas Hodgkinson
He Was Not a Coward
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography
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February 2019 Issue
Graham Seal
Shamans in Arms
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
By Owen Davies
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November 2018 Issue
Simon Heffer
Let the Bells Ring Out
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
By Guy Cuthbertson
August 2018 Issue
John Sutherland
The Hazards of his Love-Bed
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to 'Good-bye to All That' (1895–1929)
By Jean Moorcroft Wilson
June 1998 Issue
Sebastian Faulks
First Attempt
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet
By Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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March 2018 Issue
Uta Frith
Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
By Patricia Fara
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March 2018 Issue
Jane Rye
Hidden Figures
Joseph Gray’s Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception
By Mary Horlock
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November 1998 Issue
Sebastian Faulks
How They Saw It
To the Last Man: Spring 1918
By Lyn Macdonald
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December 2017 Issue
Robert Gerwarth
Endgame
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
By David Stevenson
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November 2017 Issue
Michael Alexander
Remembering ‘For the Fallen’
November 2017 Issue
Dominic Green
Double Takes
Grand Illusions: American Art & the First World War
By David M Lubin
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June 1998 Issue
Brian Phillips
When Neutrality Becomes a Cause for Scandal
Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross
By Caroline Moorehead
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August 2017 Issue
Saul David
He Scorned the British
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa
By Robert Gaudi
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June 1997 Issue
John Mortimer
Nothing So Decadent as Pemberton Billing
Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy and the First World War
By Philip Hoare
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March 2001 Issue
Kathleen Burk
How Much do We Want to Know?
The First World War, Volume I: To Arms
By Hew Strachan
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February 2017 Issue
Richard Overy
The Price of Peace
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt
By Peter Clarke
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