MHM has curated a list of 2019’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM book awards. Our selection includes some of the best-researched, most-insightful, and most-readable titles reviewed in the magazine over the last year. But we need your help to select the winner!
Book Awards
MHM Book of the Year 2020
On 2 December, we will be revealing our list of 2019’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s Military History Matters’s book awards. Our selection will include some of the best-researched, most-insightful, and most-readable titles reviewed and featured in the magazine over the last year. And we’ll need your help to select the winners!
REVIEW – The Fortress: the Great Siege of Przemysl
I had thought I knew a lot about the First World War. Until I read this book. Then I discovered a yawning gap in knowledge and understanding.
REVIEW – The Allure of Battle: A History of how Wars have been Won and Lost
How important are ‘decisive battles’ in the history of war? This is the central question addressed by Cathal Nolan in this magisterial survey of more than 2,000 years of military history.
REVIEW – The Vietnam War: an intimate history
By the time the Viet Cong flag was being raised across Saigon on 30 April 1975, the United States had spent the best part of 30 years conducting a programme of sustained financial, political, and military assaults against Vietnam in order to prevent the country from becoming a Communist state.
REVIEW – Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Battle for France
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once under way, driven by events that could not be foreseen.
REVIEW – The British are coming: the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 – 1777
With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which described his work as ‘a tapestry of fabulous richness and complexity… Atkinson is a master of what might be called “pointillism history”, assembling the small dots of pure colour into a vivid, tumbling narrative…’.
REVIEW – 24 Hours at Balaclava, 25 October 1854: Voices from the Battlefield
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption of episodic violence that changed nothing and settled nothing.
REVIEW – Arnhem: the complete story of Operation Market Garden, 17 – 25 September 1944
William F Buckingham has written what may become the definitive British account of the Battle of Arnhem. In a crowded field, Buckingham’s meticulous reconstruction of the battle provides the reader with a detailed yet accessible narrative of those remarkable events of 75 years ago.
REVIEW – The American Military: a concise history
The American Military: a concise history is an essential introduction to the development of the US army. From the landing of the first English settlers at Jamestown to the protracted conflicts in the Middle East today, the book documents the key transformations that have occurred within the American armed forces over the centuries.
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