After many years in the Far East, Martin Anderson returned to the UK in 2001. The first volume of The Hoplite Journals(I-XXIX) was published by Shearsman Books in 2006. This penultimate volume evokes, like its predecessor, events and places largely in South East and South Asia as well as the West, and continues the earlier volume's exploration of allegiances and identities within the troubled context of mostly colonial and ex-colonial possessions.