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september 2019 • issue 479
Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack General Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Jared Spears • Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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diary 1 John Burnside
literary lives 6 Donald Rayfield
The Europeans: Three Lives & the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture Orlando Figes 8 Joan Smith
Sontag: Her Life Benjamin Moser 9 Selina Hastings
Lost Girls: Love, War & Literature 1939–1951 D J Taylor 10 Kevin Ruane
Cold Warriors Duncan White
history 12 Costica Bradatan
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind Tom Holland 13 John Keay
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company William Dalrymple 15 Keith Lowe
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 Max Hastings 16 Piers Brendon
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties Peter Hennessy 18 Caroline Moorehead
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present Peter Gatrell
foreign parts 20 Stephen Evans
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Mitchell Zuckoff 21 Hazel Smith
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise & Rule of Kim Jong Un Anna Fifield 22 Rana Mitter
Great State: China & the World Timothy Brook
consorts 24 Helen Rappaport
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy A N Wilson
