September 2018 Issue Jane Ridley Going Jungly The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience By David Gilmour LR
August 2015 Issue Adrian Tinniswood To the Wild Coast Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony By Matthew Parker
September 2004 Issue Simon Heffer The Pride of the Fleet The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 By N A M Rodger LR
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