June 2023 Issue David Pryce-Jones They Came from Baghdad Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew By Avi Shlaim LR
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
November 2017 Issue Frederic Raphael Holy Fool? Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem By George Prochnik 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
October 2012 Issue Rory Miller Defensive Positions Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country – and Why They Can’t Make Peace By Patrick Tyler LR
December 2013 Issue Adam LeBor What a State to Be In Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel By Max Blumenthal 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.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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