October 2023 Issue Bijan Omrani Escape from Kabul The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: A True Story of the Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban By Larisa Brown LR
July 2023 Issue Tim Stanley Outrage in Oklahoma Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism By Jeffrey Toobin LR
April 2020 Issue David Anderson The Sussex Jihadis No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs are Made By Mark Townsend LR
December 2019 Issue Andrew Hussey Massacre of the Satirists Disturbance By Philippe Lançon (Translated from French by Steven Rendall)
December 2019 Issue Joanna Bourke Call of the Caliphate Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS By Azadeh Moaveni LR
September 2019 Issue Stephen Evans One Day in September Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 By Mitchell Zuckoff
August 2019 Issue Raffaello Pantucci Murderers in the Making Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists By Joan Smith LR
February 2018 Issue Michael Burleigh Lethal Intelligence Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016 By Steve Coll LR
July 2017 Issue Adrian Weale Road to Abbottabad The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight By Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy LR
June 2017 Issue Adrian Weale ‘A Wilderness of Wreckage’ The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice By Stuart H Newberger LR
December 2016 Issue James Harkin The Price of Freedom Merchants of Men: How Kidnapping, Randsom and Trafficking Funds Terrorism and ISIS By Loretta Napoleoni LR
November 2016 Issue David Patrikarakos Progression through Regression Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea By Shiraz Maher LR
March 2016 Issue Matthew Green Facing Terror Hunting Season: The Execution of James Foley, Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War By James Harkin The New Threat from Islamic Militancy By Jason Burke LR
March 2003 Issue Michael Burleigh The State We’re In The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat By Roger Scruton LR
May 2003 Issue Michael Prowse Reason And Unreason Al Qaeda and What it Means to Be Modern By John Gray LR
June 2003 Issue Hazhir Teimourian Was It Every Right? The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror By Bernard Lewis Infidels: The Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, 638-2002 By Andrew Wheatcroft LR
September 2003 Issue Hazhir Teimourian Anatomy of a Terrorist Al-Qaeda: Casting A Shadow Of Terror By Jason Burke LR
March 2004 Issue John Hamilton Bankrolling the Bombers Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks By Loretta Napoleoni LR
June 2011 Issue Justin Marozzi The Cruel Sea Deadly Waters: Inside the Hidden World of Somalia’s Pirates By Jay Bahadur LR
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