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When African Royalty Went Dog Racing

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Empire Strikes Back

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

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They Came, They Saw, They Dissented

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

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John Keay

In Cold Blood

Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre

By Kim A Wagner

The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

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John Keay

From Kensington to Kathmandu

The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire

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Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

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John Keay

Reluctant Allies

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

By Raghu Karnad

The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War

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Jonathan Mirsky

Stealing the Crown’s Jewel

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation

By Philip Snow

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The Shanghai Beat

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift In Shanghai

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The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

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Saul David

Better Than The Romans

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

By Piers Brendon

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August 2007 Issue

Charles Allen

A Great Soul

Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

By Rajmohan Gandhi

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David Gilmour

Divided It Stands

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

By Yasmin Khan

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August 2007 Issue

Simon Heffer

Decline and Fall

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

By Peter Clarke

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June 2007 Issue

Piers Brendon

The Sun Does Set

Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968

By Ronald Hyam

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Finest Hour

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By Ashley Jackson

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Andrew Roberts

A Model of the Old School

Wavell: Soldier and Statesman

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Frank Fairfield

The Day the Raj Died

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Martin Evans

Changing of the Guard

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

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Jane Ridley

On the Precipice

1913: The World before the Great War

By Charles Emmerson

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