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September 2008 Issue Kenneth O Morgan Unelected & Underrated Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10 By Bernard Donoughue LR
September 2008 Issue Richard Overy At the Edge of War Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis By David Faber LR
October 2008 Issue Richard Overy A War Quartet Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West By Andrew Roberts LR
September 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell Derby’s Days The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851) By Angus Hawkins LR
May 2012 Issue Leslie Mitchell Killer in the Commons Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister By Andro Linklater LR
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