February 2002 Issue Adam LeBor The Decline and Fall of a Friendship Embers By Sándor Márai (translated by Carol Brown Janeway) LR
March 2017 Issue Adam LeBor Blood Lines A Crime in the Family By Sacha Batthyány (Translated by Anthea Bell) LR
August 2016 Issue Piers Brendon A Most Violent Year Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World By Alex von Tunzelmann
May 1997 Issue Antonia Douro Eternal Horror Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess By Tony Thorne
March 2004 Issue Victor Sebestyen Memoirs of a Changing Man The Phoenix Land By Miklós Bánffy (Translated by Patrick Thursfield, Katalin Bánffy-Jelen) LR
June 2004 Issue Steve King For Love Of The Desert The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient By John Bierman LR
August 2006 Issue Adam LeBor The Battle for Budapest Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 – How the Hungarians Tried To Topple Their Soviet Masters By Victor Sebestyen LR
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