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19th Century, Age of Sail, Book Reviews, Middle East, Naval History, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Sea Power
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Latest Book Review, 27 March 2026

27 Mar 26

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a timely edited volume on the naval history of the Middle East, providing a wide-ranging set of chapters and case studies.

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A Naval History of the Middle East 500-2020

27 Mar 26

270 pages Prof Andrew Lambert Kings College London The Middle East, a term coined by Alfred T Mahan at the […]

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19th Century, Amphibious Operations, Book Reviews, Naval History, Naval Warfare, Royal Marines, Seapower
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Latest Book Review, 13 January 2026

13 Jan 26

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book which “presents a careful, methodologically restrained study of how Britain thought about, prepared for, and practised amphibious operations in the three decades before the First World War.”

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The Development of British Amphibious Operations, 1882-1914

13 Jan 26

296 pages Andrew Young, PhD candidate King’s College London In this seminal work, Moretz presents a careful, methodologically restrained study […]

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19th Century, Book Reviews, Colonialism, Indo-Pacific, Naval History, United States Navy
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Latest Book Review, 19 December 2025

19 Dec 25

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of the US conquest and occupation of the Philippines at the end of the 19th century, which ‘changed the geopolitics of Asia’.

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Manila Bay 1898: Dawn of an American Empire

19 Dec 25

96 pages Prof Andrew Lambert This illuminating account of the conquest and occupation of the Philippines, and the financial arrangement […]

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19th Century, Age of Sail, Baltic, Book Reviews, Crimean War, First World War, France, Geostrategy, Germany, Maritime Strategy, Napoleonic Wars, Naval History, Russia, Seapower, Second World War, Strategy
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Latest Book Review, 23 September 2025

23 Sep 25

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers Professor Andrew Lambert’s masterful study of the development of British strategy from victory at Waterloo to the First World War.

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No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One

23 Sep 25

588 pages Capt M K Barritt and Dr James Bosbotinis What personal narrative framework do we have for the period […]

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19th Century, Age of Sail, Book Reviews, Hydrographic Survey, Naval History, Seapower
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Latest Book Review, 5 August 2025

05 Aug 25

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a reprint of a biography of Admiral Beaufort, originally published in 2002.

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