Issue: September 2020

Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war

A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War

The women who always walked alone

Raphael, as dedicated a lover as he was a painter, died at 37 at the height of his powers and fame, illustrates Michael Prodger

Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition

The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970

MacDonald Gill’s poster for the Empire Marketing Board helped promote a nation at the height of its powers

John Self examines three varied, emotionally satisfying novels that together come in at less than the length of a single Mantel

László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer

Claudia Savage-Gore on the pitfalls of the back-to-school run at the worst time of year