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Articles in Spring 2008 issue of Contemporary Review

• How famous writers write
  by Stephen Wade
• That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland during the Second World War
• George III: America's Last King
• Leni: the Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
• Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery
• Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero
• More houses in England's green and pleasant land
  by George Wedd
• Coping with the persecution of the Roma in Slovakia
  by Thomas Land
• Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
• Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
• By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English
• The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared
• Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War
• Guernica and Total War
• Americans and their land: the deep roots of property and liberty
  by Will Sarvis
• From cattle to crops in Ethiopia
  by Aregu Balleh
• The truth about Ulster's Orangemen
  by Chris Arthur
• Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination
• Digging Up The Dead: The Life and Times of Astley Cooper, an Extraordinary Surgeon
• Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars
• The Discovery of France
• Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench in England 1600-1770
• Instruction to Deliver: Tony Blair, Public Services and the Challenge of Achieving Targets
• Losing sleep in Romania
  by Ehren Schimmel
• Censorship in today's Britain
  by Michael Karwowski
• White City
• This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
• The Queen's Knight: The Extraordinary Life of Queen Victoria's Most Trusted Confidant
• Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging
• Napoleon in Egypt: 'The Greatest Glory'
• Russia's Islamic Threat
• Ukraine's unstable alliances
  by Stefan Simanowitz
• The Blairs of Downing Street
  by Michael Carver
• Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
• The Politics of Englishness
• Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1789-1837
• Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait
• The British Museum Caricatures of the Peoples of the British Isles
• Enountering the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer
  by Stephen Chan
• Town and country planning put to the test
  by Albert Hobson
• The Offbeat Radicals: The British Tradition of Alternative Dissent
• Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English
• Perth and Kinross
• The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art
• The Proto-Totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes
• Black sheep, white sheep: the Swiss and Immigration
  by Michael Nash
• Germany's family policies
  by Barbara Goeb
• In defence of painting
  by Richard Clarke
• Michael Foot—the intellectual in politics
  by George Wedd
• British Diplomacy: Foreign Secretaries Reflect
• Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
• Forgotten Voices of the Falklands
• Prisoner of War: Voices from Captivity during the Second World War
• Robert Peel: A Biography
• 1990s AD
  by Rebecca Lloyd
• The new Australian Government
  by Keith Suter
• Truman, Potsdam and the Cold War
  by Jonathan Colman
• City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
• Remembered: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Locke: A Biography
• Essex
• Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
• Watteau in London and Paris
  by Donald Bruce
• Why America cannot ignore soft power
  by Sharif Shuja
• Christian Europe and the Muslim threat
  by Charles Foster
• Panama Fever: The Battle to Build the Canal
• Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Government Art Collection
• After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift
• Out of the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther
• Young Stalin
• The world of paperbacks
• Belgium's survival as a nation
  by Mark Corner
• An inside view of life in Afghanistan
  by Joan Bridgman
• Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance
• Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire
• Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England
• Comrades: A World History of Communism
• The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion
• Organising informal workers in South Africa
  by Isobel Frye
• Devil fervour: conspiracy theories, Ground Zero and the religion of the dispossessed
  by Edward Dutton