December 2020 Issue
Rana Mitter
Setting the World Ablaze
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
By Tim Harper
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September 2020 Issue
Malcolm Murfett
Leaping into the Abyss
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War – July 1937–May 1942
By Richard B Frank
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February 2020 Issue
Jasper Becker
Getting to Know the Neighbours
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan
By Michael Booth
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May 2019 Issue
Humphrey Hawksley
The Biggest Fish in the Sea
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century
By Parag Khanna
The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean
By Bertil Lintner
LR
December 1998 Issue
Thomas Pakenham
Awe-Inspiring Account of Himalayas and Hindu Kush
Among The Mountains: Travels in Asia
By Wilfred Thesiger
December 2018 Issue
Victor Mallet
Dam the Consequences
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History
By Sunil Amrith
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July 2018 Issue
Christopher Coker
Will China Rule the Waves?
Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
By Humphrey Hawksley
LR
December 2017 Issue
Vaudine England
Twenty Years On
December 2017 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Continental Shift
Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance
By Richard McGregor
The Improbable War: China, the United States & the Logic of Great Power Conflict
By Christopher Coker
August 1998 Issue
Sara Wheeler
Burma Discovered through a Shapely Basket
Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land
By Rory MacLean
LR
September 2016 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Orient Express
Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century
By Gideon Rachman
September 2016 Issue
Kevin Jackson
Use Your Illusions
Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World
By Chris Goto-Jones
LR
March 1980 Issue
Edward S Herman, Noam Chomsky
After the Cataclysm
Condensed from their The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (The Political Economy of Human Rights - Volume I)
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August 2015 Issue
Timothy Brook
Our Father in Mongolia
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
By Frank McLynn
LR
August 2015 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
From the Black Sea to Xinjiang
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By Peter Frankopan
LR
June 2015 Issue
John Keay
Badlands
Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier
By Bertil Lintner
October 2003 Issue
Matthew Leeming
At The Heart Of Asia
The Silk Road: Art and History
By Jonathan Tucker
Strolling About on the Roof of the World: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs
By Hugh Leach, Susan Maria Farrington
LR
November 2003 Issue
Christopher Ondaatje
Trouble Brewing
Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire
By Roy Moxham
LR
September 2004 Issue
Allan Massie
The Too Distant Front
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
By Christoper Bayly, Tim Harper
LR
February 2009 Issue
John Man
Battle for the Bactrians
Mysteries of the Gobi: Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia
By John Hare
LR
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