Like the first volume, Britain’s War is not a military history, although the great battles of the war are described in some
Read More »The approach is admirably interdisciplinary, blending traditional archaeological fieldwork with historical documentation, and analysis of 38 photographs from the 15th International Brigade.
Read More »REVIEW – Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: how a British civil servant helped cause the Second World War
Adrian Phillips gives us a new and fascinating angle on the whole sorry saga of miscalculation and moral surrender that led up
Read More »Black’s ‘shotgun’ approach takes us from Thucydides to Vergennes via Clausewitz, Napoleon, and Hitler, as he attempts to blend incisive historical insight
Read More »Sinclair McKay’s well-researched, detailed, and all-embracing book is the first major study of the bombing of Dresden to be published for 15
Read More »Nigel West, a renowned expert who writes extensively about British intelligence, reveals in this book the operations of Britain’s overseas intelligence gathering
Read More »The ballots have been cast, the votes have been counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book
Read More »Fiennes had picked his moment well. Ever since the dramatic Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, the press, and to some degree the
Read More »But there is a clear difference between soldiers who fight for their own national army – or, it may be, their own
Read More »Anderson, an American history professor who has taught about the war for 20 years – ‘a Southerner teaching in South Carolina’, he
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