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Volume 68 Issue 8 August 2018
- Rising son: the first Japanese man in America
- Female spies in the Irish War of Independence
- Who should be allowed to vote?
- Helmut Schmidt, Germany’s Anglophile Chancellor
- The enigma of Emily Brontë
- Italy’s fascist past