April 2015 Issue David Cesarani The Eagle & the Prophet Islam and Nazi Germany’s War By David Motadel LR
February 2009 Issue Hazhir Teimourian The Caliphate Strikes Back Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979 By Con Coughlin LR
September 2008 Issue Anton La Guardia 1979 and All That A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East By Lawrence Freedman LR
June 2008 Issue Adam LeBor Change by the Sea Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 – The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance By Giles Milton LR
March 2008 Issue Simon Heffer From Fenian to Jihadist Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism By Michael Burleigh LR
December 2007 Issue Michael Burleigh Where It All Began The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising By Yaroslav Trofimov LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
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