In early 1943, while at Harvard, Jean Claude was drafted into the Army. He was surprised to find life there more to
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Rob Johnson’s achievement in this book is to take Colonel T E Lawrence seriously as a theoretician and practitioner of war, and
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In the post-war years, they were remembered on monuments and in cemeteries, ‘made present’ by absence, by anonymity rather than by naming.
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As Churchill liked to say, to defeat the Nazis the Russians gave their blood, the Americans their money, and Britain held out
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Hunger is breezy in its approach, but the subject Blom discusses is a serious one. Indeed, the spectre of food – or
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Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –
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Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while
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Like the first volume, Britain’s War is not a military history, although the great battles of the war are described in some
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The approach is admirably interdisciplinary, blending traditional archaeological fieldwork with historical documentation, and analysis of 38 photographs from the 15th International Brigade.
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Adrian Phillips gives us a new and fascinating angle on the whole sorry saga of miscalculation and moral surrender that led up
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