March 2022 Issue Anthony Sattin Through the Lions’ Gate Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City By Matthew Teller LR
May 2021 Issue George Prochnik Vienna by Temple Mount German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City By Thomas Sparr
November 2019 Issue Avi Shilon Israel or Bust A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion By Tom Segev (Translated from Hebrew by Haim Watzman) LR
March 2018 Issue Bernard Wasserstein Promised Land or Basket Case? In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea By Michael Brenner
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
March 2017 Issue David Pryce-Jones Shock and Awe The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East By Guy Laron LR
November 2015 Issue Adam LeBor Seeds of Discord Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin & the Remaking of Israel By Dan Ephron LR
July 2015 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Escape from Entebbe Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History By Saul David LR
March 2011 Issue Adam LeBor Aftershocks of the Risorgimento Jerusalem: The Biography By Simon Sebag Montefiore LR
August 2010 Issue Adam LeBor The Other Naqba In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands By Martin Gilbert LR
May 2008 Issue David Cesarani The Root of Conflict 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War By Benny Morris 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
July 2014 Issue Adam LeBor 1967 & All That Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories By Ahron Bregman LR
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