November 2020 Issue Farzana Shaikh Caught Between Allah & America The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan By Owen Bennett-Jones The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto By Victoria Schofield The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation By Declan Walsh
March 2020 Issue David Gilmour Rogues & Republicans A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874–2018 By Paul Preston LR
March 2000 Issue Geoffrey Wheatcroft Still Around The New Century: In Conversation with Antonio Politio By Eric Hobsbawm LR
March 2000 Issue Mark Almond There Are, Indeed, Some Lessons to be Learned Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond By Michael Ignatieff Kosovo: War and Revenge By Tim Judah LR
September 2019 Issue Christian Goeschel Portraits in Tyranny How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century By Frank Dikötter 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 1998 Issue Brian Walden A First-Class Man to Study these Mediocrities The Road to Number 10: From Bonar Law to Tony Blair By Alan Watkins LR
April 2018 Issue Tim Stanley A Valediction to Power LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval By Kyle Longley
May 1996 Issue Kate Hubbard Lashers for Breakfast Lantern Slides: The Letters and Diaries of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914 By Mark Bonham Carter and Mark Pottle (eds)
May 1993 Issue Victoria Brittain Never Truly Free Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel By David Grossman A Balcony over the Fakihani By Liyana Badr LR
September 2016 Issue Adam Zamoyski Grand Designs The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 By Richard J Evans LR
June 2016 Issue Donald Rayfield Philosophers & Murderers Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism By Charles Clover A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West By Luke Harding LR
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 1983 Issue Christopher Hitchens Last, Best Hope The Making of the Second Cold War By Fred Halliday LR
May 2003 Issue Richard Overy Poisonous TImes Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctors' Plot By Jonathan Brent & Vladimir P Naumov LR
November 2004 Issue Richard Overy How I Won In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing The Second World War By David Reynolds LR
April 2009 Issue Paul Addison No Turning Back Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era By Richard Vinen LR
February 2009 Issue Hazhir Teimourian The Caliphate Strikes Back Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979 By Con Coughlin LR
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