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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
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
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