I had thought I knew a lot about the First World War. Until I read this book. Then I discovered a yawning…
How important are ‘decisive battles’ in the history of war? This is the central question addressed by Cathal Nolan in this magisterial…
By the time the Viet Cong flag was being raised across Saigon on 30 April 1975, the United States had spent the…
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once…
With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which…
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption…
William F Buckingham has written what may become the definitive British account of the Battle of Arnhem. In a crowded field, Buckingham’s…
The American Military: a concise history is an essential introduction to the development of the US army. From the landing of the…
Anthony Richards uses first-hand testimony to recreate the dying moments of the stricken Lusitania on 7 May 1915.…
It is perhaps surprising that no one had written a history of the Commonwealth armies in the Second World War before this…