July 2017 Issue Frank McLynn Hearts of Darkness Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa By Steven Press LR
June 2016 Issue Saul David Admin Nightmare Burma ’44: The Battle that Turned the War in the Far East By James Holland LR
June 2016 Issue Andrew Roberts Passages to India Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31 By Stuart Ball (ed) LR
November 2015 Issue John Keay Regilding the Pagoda Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma By Richard Cockett LR
October 2008 Issue Piers Brendon The Fakir and the Bulldog Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age By Arthur Herman LR
October 2007 Issue Saul David Better Than The Romans The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 By Piers Brendon LR
August 2007 Issue Simon Heffer Decline and Fall The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire By Peter Clarke LR
June 2007 Issue Piers Brendon The Sun Does Set Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968 By Ronald Hyam LR
December 2011 Issue Robert Irwin Return of the Mahdi? Saladin By Anne-Marie Eddé (Translated by Jane Marie Todd) LR
April 2014 Issue Martin Evans Changing of the Guard Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire By Martin Thomas LR
April 2013 Issue Simon Heffer Messy Break-Ups Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World – 1945–65 By Michael Burleigh LR
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