June 2024 Issue Neal E Robbins Tale of Two Chinas The Struggle for Taiwan: A History By Sulmaan Wasif Khan LR
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
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) LR
December 2020 Issue Rana Mitter Setting the World Ablaze Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire By Tim Harper LR
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 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
May 2013 Issue John Man Rafts on a Sea of Grass The History of Central Asia, Volume One: The Age of the Steppe Warriors By Christoph Baumer (translated by Miranda Bennett) LR
December 2013 Issue John Keay Baywatch Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants By Sunil S Amrith LR
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