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Highlight: 'Anyone interested in how the Middle East was reshaped after the Great War, the collisions between Bolshevism and Islam, and clashes between India and the Home government, will relish this book. Not surprisingly it has beenawarded the new British in India Book Prize of 2023.

Rose Llewelyn-Jones, Asian Affairs Journal

The Decline of Empires marries its exhaustive research with excellent writing and as such will appeal to a wide array of people from specialist scholars through to general readers. It contains instructive lessons on great power politics and strategy that have clear contemporary relevance.

Journal of Military History

An account of the comparatively modern history of the post-WW1 world, throwing light on some of the modern conflicts such as in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Books Monthly

This meticulously researched book goes to extraordinary lengths to unpick the
machinations of key players at the time. Curzon had served as Viceroy of India at
the turn of the century and by the time he was appointed Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs in 1920, there was a general contemporary perception that his
views of South Asian affairs were inviolate.

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Phil Curme

A handsome, well produced volume, as usual with Pen & Sword, and worth reading by anyone interested in Britain’s Indian Empire. It is packed with information despite its narrow scope; the chosen years are well covered.

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ARRSE (Army Rumour Service)

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