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February 2019 Issue Tim Blanning Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Elector Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich By Christopher Clark LR
August 1994 Issue Anne Applebaum They Cannot Be Blamed for Hitler’s Excesses Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea By Giles MacDonogh LR
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April 2003 Issue David Cesarani A Chronicle of Suffering and Spirituality The Pity of It All: A Portrait of German Jews 1743-1933 By Amos Elon LR
April 2003 Issue Alexander Waugh An Unusually Gifted Composer Beethoven: The Music and the Life By Lewis Lockwood LR
February 2004 Issue Rupert Christiansen The Last of the Great Unromantics Mendelssohn: A Life in Music By R Larry Todd LR
July 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Wagner In Love Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde By Roger Scruton
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