August 2024 Issue Bijan Omrani Playground of the Gods Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq By Bartle Bull LR
March 2024 Issue Rory Mccarthy The Case of the Vanishing Missiles The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979–2003 By Steve Coll 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
April 2016 Issue C P W Gammell Slaughter over the Shatt al-Arab The Iran–Iraq War By Pierre Razoux (Translated by Nicholas Elliott)
May 2014 Issue Hugh Kennedy The Tigris, Foaming with Much Blood Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood By Justin Marozzi
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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