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Book review: Fortune`s Soldier by Alex Rutherford

History as entertainment The story is as much about the two men as it is about the insidious way that the East India Company worked to eventually establish British rule in India. The friendship of two men, the fictional Nicholas Ballantyne and the actual historical figure of Robert Clive, forms the basis of the story…

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Book review: Empire of the Moghul : Traitors in the Shadows by Alex Rutherford

  Aurangzeb: zealot or strategist? This is the sixth in the Empire of the Moghul series by Alex Rutherford (the pen name of Diana and Michael Preston) , and for a reviewer newly come to the series,  that could have been a disadvantage. However, it is not, simply because Traitors in the Shadows stands alone…

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