October 2022 Issue Piers Brendon Delusions of Grandeur How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–2022 By Arthur Snell 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
July 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky This Is What Bombs Do Into the Darkness: An Account of 7/7 By Peter Zimonjic 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
October 2008 Issue Peter Oborne The Thing About… What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century By Chris Patten LR
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