From the March 2020 Issue Rogues & Republicans A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874–2018 By Paul Preston LR
From the October 2019 Issue One Nation or Two? Violencia: A New History of Spain – Past, Present and the Future of the West By Jason Webster After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain By Tobias Buck LR
From the August 2016 Issue Colonial Conundrums India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire By Jon Wilson
From the February 2015 Issue Living the High Life The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity By Andrew Gailey LR
From the October 2011 Issue A Dyer Order The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day By Nick Lloyd LR
From the July 2011 Issue Song of the South Street Fight in Naples: A City’s Unseen History By Peter Robb LR
From the November 2010 Issue Sunset Over Samothrace Patrick Shaw Stewart: An Edwardian Meteor By Miles Jebb LR
From the August 2007 Issue Divided It Stands Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire By Alex von Tunzelmann The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan By Yasmin Khan LR
From the June 2014 Issue Sentimental Indophile A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes By Sam Miller LR
From the November 2006 Issue Problems of Partition The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition By Narendra Singh Sarila Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India By Stanley Wolpert LR
From the September 2012 Issue For Better, For Worse Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain By John Darwin LR
From the July 2013 Issue Imbalancing Act An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions By Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen LR
From the November 2013 Issue The Unexpected Country 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh By Srinath Raghavan
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