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August 1999 Issue Michael Portillo Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party By Graham Stewart
June 2016 Issue Andrew Roberts Passages to India Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31 By Stuart Ball (ed) LR
October 2015 Issue Piers Brendon Learning the Lambeth Walk The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943 By Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed) (Translated by Tatiana Sorokina & Oliver Ready)
March 2014 Issue Christopher Coker Out of Step with History The Kennan Diaries By Frank Costigliola (ed) LR
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