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August 2022 Issue Duncan Wheeler Don Quixote Meets Don Juan España: A Brief History of Spain By Giles Tremlett Incomparable Realms: Spain During the Golden Age, 1500–1700 By Jeremy Robbins LR
July 2021 Issue David Abulafia Alhambra Confidential City of Illusions: A History of Granada By Helen Rodgers & Stephen Cavendish LR
April 2020 Issue Linda Porter A Catholic & a Gentleman Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain By Alexander Samson LR
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May 2019 Issue Anthony Pagden Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed Emperor: A New Life of Charles V By Geoffrey Parker LR
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March 2008 Issue Michael Jacobs A Golden Age? Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity By Henry Kamen LR
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May 2012 Issue Timothy Brook Raise the Holy Sail Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem By Carol Delaney The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama By Nigel Cliff LR
October 2012 Issue Caroline Moorehead Intellectuals-at-Arms I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism By David Boyd Haycock Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism By Richard Baxell LR
March 2014 Issue Frederic Raphael In the Caudillo’s Shadow Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 By Jeremy Treglown LR
July 2013 Issue Michael Jacobs The Quiet Englishman The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War By Henry Buckley LR
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