June 2021 Issue Lawrence Freedman Countdown to Armageddon Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis By Serhii Plokhy
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October 1983 Issue Christopher Hitchens Last, Best Hope The Making of the Second Cold War By Fred Halliday LR
November 2008 Issue Richard Overy A Dirty Conflict World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West By Laurence Rees 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
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May 2006 Issue Richard Overy A Curious Correspondence My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 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
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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.
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