We review Colonel C E Callwell’s famous Late Victorian counter-insurgency manual, Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice. The military academies are buzzing…
Book Club: The Kill Zone Chris Ryan is ‘the one that got away’: the one member of the famous Bravo Two Zero SAS…
‘A date which will live in infamy’ was the iconic phrase coined by President Roosevelt to describe the Japanese attack on Pearl…
Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War In the new, revised (paperback) edition of Killing Time, Nicholas J Saunders has updated…
Compiled from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, this oral history recounts the deeds of those – as recounted by…
Six Weeks: the short and gallant life of the British officer in the First World War The stiff upper-lip spirit of the…
The Battle of Kohima, though fought on a smaller scale than its Russian equivalent, is rightly remembered as the ‘Stalingrad of the…
The Life and Times of Frank Thornton Birkinshaw is exactly that, devoting two of its chapters to Frank’s enlistment in the 8th…
Wellington’s Highland Warriors: from the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo. The amalgamation of the Scottish regiments into one ‘super-regiment’,…
The Battle of Britain: five months that changed history, May-October 1940 Those with a special interest in the Battle of Britain or…