November 2003 Issue Hazhir Teimourian In The Steppes of Curzon The New Great Game: Blood and Oil In Central Asia By Lutz Kleveman 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
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In the summer of 1918, the Caspian port of Baku played host to a remarkable group of Allied soldiers, sent to defend oil wells against the Ottomans.
Anna Reid recounts their escapades.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
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