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The Case of the Vanishing Missiles
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979–2003
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Michael Taylor
The Long Road to Emancipation
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888
By Robin Blackburn
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
By Hannah Durkin
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June 2023 Issue
Alan Ryan
Sparks of Revolution
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)
By Peter Moore
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David Gelber
Coming from America
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By Caroline Dodds Pennock
May 2022 Issue
Lucy Lethbridge
Hitching Skirt and Wagon
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
By Katie Hickman
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Rana Mitter
Day of Infamy
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War
By Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman
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Edward Vallance
The Trials of Goody Parsons
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By Malcolm Gaskill
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July 2021 Issue
Tim Stanley
All the President’s Mendacity
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate – an American Tragedy
By Michael Dobbs
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Lawrence Freedman
Countdown to Armageddon
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Serhii Plokhy
February 2021 Issue
Frank McLynn
Blazing Comet Falls to Earth
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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November 2020 Issue
David Blow
Best of Enemies
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
By John Ghazvinian
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September 2020 Issue
Dominic Sandbrook
Crocodile Diplomacy
Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
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July 2020 Issue
Kate Dossett
Jazz Age Rebels
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
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April 2020 Issue
Malcolm Murfett
Isle of the Dead
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
By Saul David
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April 2020 Issue
Frank McLynn
Crazy Horse’s Last Stand
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
By Pekka Hämäläinen
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Stephen Fender
The Plain Man’s Pound
The Poetic Achievements of Ezra Pound
By Michael Alexander
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August 2019 Issue
Michael Burleigh
All the President’s Hitmen
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By Annie Jacobsen
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July 2019 Issue
Edward Vallance
Regicides on the Run
Charles I’s Killers in America: The Lives & Afterlives of Edward Whalley & William Goffe
By Matthew Jenkinson
May 2019 Issue
Jay Parini
Feds under the Bed
Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
By JPat Brown, B C D Lipton & Michael Morisy (edd)
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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
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