february 2023 • issue 515
Editor Nancy Sladek
Deputy Editor Tom Fleming
Assistant Editor David Gelber
Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman
Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack
Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado
Marketing Manager Constance Watson
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Classified Advertising David Sturge
Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith
Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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diary
- Norma Clarke
history
- Jonathan Sumption
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning Nigel Biggar
Jerey Wasserstrom
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution Tania Branigan
Edward Vallance
e Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England Jonathan Healey
Alan Allport
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914-1945 Robin Prior
Zareer Masani
Spying on the Reich: e Cold War Against Hitler R T Howard
Mary Fulbrook
e Holocaust: An Unfinished History Dan Stone
technology
Michael Burleigh
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket reatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud
biography
- A J Lees
e Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis Seamus O’Mahony
Caroline Moorehead
Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War Sarah Watling
Mark Cornwall
Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland Joshua D Zimmerman
Antony Spawforth
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities James Romm
Adam Sisman
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy Benny Morris
footprints
- Colin ubron Following Chekhov down the Amur river
