June 2024 Issue Ada Wordsworth Reading Livy in Lviv The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations By Andriy Sodomora (Translated from Ukrainian by Roman Ivashkiv & Sabrina Jaszi) LR
May 2024 Issue Jonathan Boff Graveyard of Empires The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War By Nick Lloyd LR
March 2024 Issue Mark Galeotti Comedian Who Got Serious The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky By Simon Shuster LR
February 2023 Issue Robert Chandler Poets Against Putin Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems By Julia Nemirovskaya (ed)
October 2022 Issue Michael Burleigh Once Upon a Time in Ukraine Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past By Omer Bartov LR
September 2022 Issue Helen Parr Journey’s End The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister By Olesya Khromeychuk LR
April 2022 Issue Robert Service From Thaw to War Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate By M E Sarotte
December 2021 Issue Owen Matthews Home of the Cherry Tree Troubled Water: A Journey around the Black Sea By Jens Mühling (Translated from German by Simon Pare) LR
September 2017 Issue Donald Rayfield Emptying the Bread Basket Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum
February 2016 Issue Anna Reid Between West & East The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine By Serhii Plokhy In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine By Tim Judah Thinking with the Blood: Scenes from Ukraine’s Revolution By Owen Matthews LR
December 2014 Issue Oleg Gordievsky Kiev Conundrum Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West By Andrew Wilson LR
February 2006 Issue Stuart Hensel Drawing Out The Poison Ukraine's Orange Revolution By Andrew Wilson LR
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