March 2024 Issue Rory Mccarthy The Case of the Vanishing Missiles The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979–2003 By Steve Coll LR
October 2020 Issue Piers Brendon Friends with Benefits The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship By Ian Buruma Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump By Kim Darroch LR
June 2018 Issue Christopher Coker The Greatest Game Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand Strategist By Justin Vaïsse (Translated by Catherine Porter) On Grand Strategy By John Lewis Gaddis LR
April 2003 Issue Bryan Appleyard An Ocean Apart Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order By Robert Kagan LR
November 2003 Issue Simon Heffer Patrolling The Globe 'A Problem From Hell': America and the Age of Genocide By Samantha Power LR
May 2004 Issue Michael Burleigh Full Spectrum Dominance Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire By Niall Ferguson LR
March 2008 Issue M R D Foot Silence at the Front The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended By Nicholas Best LR
December 2011 Issue Odd Arne Westad Cold Hands, Warm Heart Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War By Frank Costigliola LR
March 2012 Issue Paul Johnson Star-Crossed Allies Reagan & Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship By Richard Aldous LR
May 2013 Issue Conor Gearty In the Chains of Command The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay By Jess Bravin The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo By Ahmed Errachidi with Gillian Slovo LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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