Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and…
In the post-war years, they were remembered on monuments and in cemeteries, ‘made present’ by absence, by anonymity rather than by naming.…
As Churchill liked to say, to defeat the Nazis the Russians gave their blood, the Americans their money, and Britain held out…
Hunger is breezy in its approach, but the subject Blom discusses is a serious one. Indeed, the spectre of food – or…
Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –…
Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while…
Like the first volume, Britain’s War is not a military history, although the great battles of the war are described in some…
The approach is admirably interdisciplinary, blending traditional archaeological fieldwork with historical documentation, and analysis of 38 photographs from the 15th International Brigade.…
Adrian Phillips gives us a new and fascinating angle on the whole sorry saga of miscalculation and moral surrender that led up…
Black’s ‘shotgun’ approach takes us from Thucydides to Vergennes via Clausewitz, Napoleon, and Hitler, as he attempts to blend incisive historical insight…