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Anne Perkins
Driven to Distraction
Precipice
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Richard Vinen
Tories on the Home Front
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War
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Alexander Christie-Miller
Off with His Fez
The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years
By Sami Kent
August 2024 Issue
Jonathan Boff
Fortune Favours the Flexible
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, and How They Made War
By Phillips Payson O’Brien
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June 2024 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
Colonel of Mass Destruction
We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
By Alex Rowell
June 2024 Issue
R J B Bosworth
Goodbye, Mussolini
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
By Mark Gilbert
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June 2024 Issue
Neal E Robbins
Tale of Two Chinas
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History
By Sulmaan Wasif Khan
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Pratinav Anil
Midnight’s Playboys
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States
By John Zubrzycki
April 2023 Issue
Richard Vinen
One Day in October
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
By Rory Carroll
February 2023 Issue
Mark Cornwall
Rebel with a Cause
Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland
By Joshua D Zimmerman
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December 2022 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
When African Royalty Went Dog Racing
Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity
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November 2022 Issue
Jerry White
A Tale of Two Cities
London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920
By Philip Davies
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September 2022 Issue
Julia Lovell
Operation Hanging Scroll
Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City
By Adam Brookes
August 2022 Issue
David Gelber
Carriage Story
British Rail: A New History
By Christian Wolmar
June 2022 Issue
Se-Woong Koo
Lost Seoul
Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
By Ramon Pacheco Pardo
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May 2022 Issue
Gillian Tindall
Last Orders at the Dockers’ Inn
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
By John Davis
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May 2022 Issue
Mike Jay
A Nation of Telepaths
The Premonitions Bureau: A True Story
By Sam Knight
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April 2022 Issue
Richard Vinen
Drinks with Galtieri
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By Julian Manyon
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March 2022 Issue
Martin Johnes
Voices of Cymru
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97
By Richard King
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March 2022 Issue
Andrew Gailey
Don’t Forget the Titians
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution, 1914–23
By Terence Dooley
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