April 2009 Issue Patrick Hennessey Not As Good As You Think The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006–2008 By Thomas E Ricks LR
July 2008 Issue Caroline Moorehead Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story By Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris LR
July 2008 Issue Michael Burleigh War Without End? Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia By Ahmed Rashid LR
August 2008 Issue Patrick Hennessey Pull Up a Sandbag A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan By James Fergusson LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
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