April 2016 Issue C P W Gammell Slaughter over the Shatt al-Arab The Iran–Iraq War By Pierre Razoux (Translated by Nicholas Elliott)
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
April 2008 Issue Adrian Weale Counting the Cost Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq By Patrick Cockburn The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes 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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