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June 2008 Issue Richard Toye A Liberal Lover The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life By Ffion Hague LR
March 2008 Issue M R D Foot Silence at the Front The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended By Nicholas Best LR
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December 2007 Issue Max Egremont The Man and the Myth The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig By Gary Mead LR
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December 2011 Issue Brendan Simms Dire Straits The Russian Origins of the First World War By Sean McMeekin LR
April 2012 Issue Norman Stone Timetables May Change The Lost History of 1914: Why the Great War Was Not Inevitable By Jack Beatty LR
October 2012 Issue Norman Stone The Hour of Their Death The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 By Christopher Clark LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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