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Scholarship, Slander & Sherry
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Caroline Moorehead
Traitor or Humanitarian?
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement
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Hazel Smith
Mona Lisa of Pyongyang
The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
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Thomas Blaikie
Gold, Frankincense & Mozzarella
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents
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Farzana Shaikh
Caught Between Allah & America
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The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto
By Victoria Schofield
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation
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Thomas W Laqueur
The Sense of Shame
The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History
By Ute Frevert (Translated from German by Adam Bresnahan)
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David Gilmour
Rogues & Republicans
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874–2018
By Paul Preston
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Bernard Porter
The Past is Another Country
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By David Reynolds
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July 2000 Issue
Roy Porter
It Is No Yoke
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By Frank Prochaska
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Still Around
The New Century: In Conversation with Antonio Politio
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March 2000 Issue
Mark Almond
There Are, Indeed, Some Lessons to be Learned
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
By Michael Ignatieff
Kosovo: War and Revenge
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November 2019 Issue
Richard Vinen
The Iron Lady & the Little Men
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By Charles Moore
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)
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Owen Matthews
Sultan on Speed Dial
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
By Hannah Lucinda Smith
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Christian Goeschel
Portraits in Tyranny
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
By Frank Dikötter
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Michael Portillo
Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement
Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party
By Graham Stewart
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Frederic Raphael
Higher Gossip
Breaking Ranks, a Political Memoir
By Norman Podhoretz
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John Pollard
Behind the Tiara
Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
By Paul Collins
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Brian Walden
A First-Class Man to Study these Mediocrities
The Road to Number 10: From Bonar Law to Tony Blair
By Alan Watkins
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April 2018 Issue
Tim Stanley
A Valediction to Power
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
By Kyle Longley
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