August 2018 Issue Frances Wilson A Place in the Sun The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination By Robert Holland
December 2015 Issue Jonathan Keates Escaping the Vicoli Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower By Nicholas Walton LR
May 2015 Issue Allan Massie Grain Store of Empires Sicily: A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra By John Julius Norwich LR
May 2015 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Down by the Sea Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World By Noel Malcolm Peiresc’s Mediterranean World By Peter N Miller
October 2004 Issue Richard Hopton After Trafalgar Stopping Napoleon: War and Intrigue in the Mediterranean By Tom Pocock LR
November 2010 Issue Giles Milton Rise and Fall Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean By Philip Mansel LR
April 2009 Issue James Holland Men-of-War The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935–1949 By Simon Ball LR
May 2008 Issue Jason Goodwin Pirate of the Middle Sea Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580 By Roger Crowley LR
December 2013 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Med Men The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World By Cyprian Broodbank LR
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