From the December 2018 Issue Some Corner of an English Field Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre By Jacqueline Riding LR
From the August 2017 Issue He Scorned the British African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa By Robert Gaudi LR
From the February 2017 Issue Hearts of Darkness Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa – 1830–1990 By Lawrence James LR
From the June 2016 Issue Admin Nightmare Burma ’44: The Battle that Turned the War in the Far East By James Holland LR
From the September 2015 Issue Parliamentary Battles Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852 By Rory Muir LR
From the March 2015 Issue Our Finest Hour? Went the Day Well? Witnessing Waterloo By David Crane Waterloo: Great Battle Series By Alan Forrest LR
From the August 2011 Issue Tough on Crime… A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa By Emma Christopher LR
From the November 2010 Issue Lyon’s Share A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided By Amanda Foreman LR
From the February 2010 Issue Hearts of Darkness The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa By Bertrand Taithe LR
From the November 2007 Issue Out of the Turmoil Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa By Martin Meredith LR
From the October 2007 Issue Better Than The Romans The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 By Piers Brendon LR
From the February 2007 Issue ‘Bow-and-Arrow Fighting’ Tip & Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa By Edward Paice LR
From the February 2005 Issue Cry Freedom Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery By Adam Hochschild Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees By Caroline Moorehead LR
From the December 2013 Issue Leading from the Front Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769–1814 By Rory Muir Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799–1815 By Philip Dwyer LR
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