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Piers Brendon
The Sun Does Set
Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968
By Ronald Hyam
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May 2014 Issue
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Liberty, Equality, Enmity
The French Intifada: The Long War between France and Its Arabs
By Andrew Hussey
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May 2014 Issue
Patrick Marnham
Road to Nowhere
Congo: The Epic History of a People
By David Van Reybrouck (Translated by Sam Garrett)
Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo
By Anjan Sundaram
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February 2005 Issue
John Adamson
Where Have All the Aboriginals Gone?
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By Nicholas Shakespeare
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December 2011 Issue
Robert Irwin
Return of the Mahdi?
Saladin
By Anne-Marie Eddé (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)
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December 2011 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Imperial Insights
Memories of Empire, Volume 1: The White Man’s World
By Bill Schwarz
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December 2011 Issue
Bertrand Taithe
Of Arms & Menelik
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
By Raymond Jonas
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December 2011 Issue
Kwasi Kwarteng
The Brute Facts
Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
By Richard Gott
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June 2012 Issue
Matthew Parker
Back to Barbados
Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire
By Andrea Stuart
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September 2012 Issue
David Gilmour
For Better, For Worse
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
By John Darwin
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November 2012 Issue
Aidan Hartley
Life at One Remove
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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November 2012 Issue
Jane Ridley
Father of Singapore
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826
By Victoria Glendinning
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December 2012 Issue
Piers Brendon
Lords of the Prairie 24
Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West
By Peter Pagnamenta
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December 2012 Issue
Edmund de Waal
Feat of Clay
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew – Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
By Tanya Harrod
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April 2014 Issue
Martin Evans
Changing of the Guard
Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire
By Martin Thomas
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February 2013 Issue
Piers Brendon
Baiting the Tigers
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By William Dalrymple
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June 2013 Issue
Patrick Wilcken
Putting Brazil on the Map
The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha
By Susanna B Hecht
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April 2013 Issue
Simon Heffer
Messy Break-Ups
Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World – 1945–65
By Michael Burleigh
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