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Book Reviews by subject:
Asia

June 2024 Issue

Neal E Robbins

Tale of Two Chinas

The Struggle for Taiwan: A History

By Sulmaan Wasif Khan

June 2024 Issue

Edward Wilson-Lee

Notes from Underground

March 2024 Issue

Philip Snow

Victors’ Justice?

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By Gary J Bass

July 2023 Issue

Zareer Masani

From Bengal to Bollywood

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

By Joya Chatterji

August 2021 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Where the Alans Roamed

History of the Caucasus: Volume One – At the Crossroads of Empires

By Christoph Baumer (Translated from German by Christopher W Reid)

December 2020 Issue

Rana Mitter

Setting the World Ablaze

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire

By Tim Harper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

August 2015 Issue

Timothy Brook

Our Father in Mongolia

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

By Frank McLynn

August 2015 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

From the Black Sea to Xinjiang

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By Peter Frankopan