December 2022 Issue Barnaby Crowcroft When African Royalty Went Dog Racing Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity By Moses E Ochonu LR
February 2022 Issue Bernard Porter They Came, They Saw, They Dissented Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom By Ramachandra Guha LR
April 2019 Issue John Keay In Cold Blood Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre By Kim A Wagner The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj By Anita Anand LR
August 2018 Issue John Keay From Kensington to Kathmandu The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire By Deborah Baker LR
July 2015 Issue John Keay Reluctant Allies Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War By Raghu Karnad The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War By Yasmin Khan
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 David Gilmour Divided It Stands Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire By Alex von Tunzelmann The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan By Yasmin Khan 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
August 2006 Issue Nigel Jones Finest Hour The British Empire and the Second World War By Ashley Jackson LR
April 2005 Issue Frank Fairfield The Day the Raj Died The Butcher of Amritsar: General of Reginald Dyer By Nigel Collet LR
April 2014 Issue Martin Evans Changing of the Guard Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire By Martin Thomas LR
May 2013 Issue Jane Ridley On the Precipice 1913: The World before the Great War By Charles Emmerson LR
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