March 2021 Issue Piers Brendon He Played Sardines with the Aga Khan Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918–38 By Simon Heffer (ed) LR
October 2020 Issue Lucy Lethbridge The Woolworths Poltergeist The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story from 1930s England By Kate Summerscale
September 2019 Issue Piers Brendon For Whom the Handbell Tolls Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties By Peter Hennessy LR
August 1999 Issue Michael Portillo Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party By Graham Stewart
February 2019 Issue Norman Stone Empire on Its Uppers The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957 By Derek Leebaert Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East By James Barr LR
December 2018 Issue Richard Overy Won in the Post The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov LR
October 2018 Issue Frances Cairncross De-Industrial Revolution What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain By James Hamilton-Paterson
August 2018 Issue Piers Brendon From Great Power to PLC The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-century History By David Edgerton LR
August 2018 Issue Sarah Bradford Cousins in Arms The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal – The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance By Frances Welch LR
May 2018 Issue Richard Overy Fighting Tomorrow’s Battles Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq By Ashley Jackson LR
February 2018 Issue Piers Brendon Spooked Out Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain By Richard Davenport-Hines
December 1999 Issue Niall Ferguson Into the Fire? From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry since the Second World War By Geoffrey Owen
November 2017 Issue Kenneth O Morgan On Benefits Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State By Chris Renwick LR
August 2017 Issue Adrian Weale Cheering for Hitler The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit By Josh Ireland LR
August 2017 Issue Piers Brendon Home from Home? Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain By Clair Wills
March 2001 Issue Kathleen Burk How Much do We Want to Know? The First World War, Volume I: To Arms By Hew Strachan LR
May 1993 Issue Claus Von Bulow Churchill Wanted to Hang Them Out of Hand The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials By Telford Taylor LR
September 2016 Issue Alan Judd Secrets & Lies Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield By Martin Pearce LR
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