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Vol. 36 No. 24 · 18 December 2014

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Alexander Gorlizki

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Vol. 36 No. 24 · 18 December 2014

James Meek

The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan by Jack Fairweather
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge
British Generals in Blair’s Wars edited by Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict 1978-2012 by Mike Martin

Letters

Austin Mitchell, Kev McCready, György Schöpflin, John Davis, Richard Bassett, Andrew Thamo, Nora Berend, Carl Thompson, Veronica Baker-Smith

Nicholas Spice

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside
Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Amanda Prantera
The Loft by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Amanda Prantera

Edward Luttwak

Britain against Napoleon: The Organisation of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight

Michael Hofmann

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Patrick Cockburn

If only they would leave

Tom McCarthy

Writing Machines

Colin Kidd

The Royalist Revolution by Eric Nelson

Tobias Gregory

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury

Joanna Biggs

Short Cuts: Transcendental Wardrobes

W.G. Runciman

Justice for Earthlings: Essays in Political Philosophy by David Miller

Rose George

Drinking Water: A History by James Salzman
Parched City: A History of London’s Public and Private Drinking Water by Emma Jones
Water 4.0: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource by David Sedlak

John Barrell

At Tate Britain: Late Turner

Alison Light

The Gardens of the British Working Class by Margaret Willes

John Burnside

Diary: Death and Photography

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