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Mona Lisa of Pyongyang
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Thomas Blaikie
Gold, Frankincense & Mozzarella
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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
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David Gilmour
Rogues & Republicans
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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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It Is No Yoke
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Still Around
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By Eric Hobsbawm
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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
By Tim Judah
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Richard Vinen
The Iron Lady & the Little Men
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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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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
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Frederic Raphael
Higher Gossip
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John Pollard
Behind the Tiara
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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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Tim Stanley
A Valediction to Power
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Tim Stanley
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By Richard Carwardine
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Edward Chaney
The Art of Politics
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By Mary Hollingsworth
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