Max Hastings, noted historian and journalist, is a titanic force in British history, with 27 books to his name – many of…
Simon de Montfort was a colossus in English affairs during the 13th century, as this biography skilfully explains. What is revealed is…
David Stahel’s latest book, Retreat from Moscow: a new history of Germany’s winter campaign, 1941-1942, is here to add vital nuance to…
This book is written rather in the style of an excellent set of lecture notes produced by a diligent tutor. Frank Ledwidge,…
Like a sort of Second World War smorgasbord, you can take a look and pull tasty morsels out of Hidden Places of…
Few today can recall much about the Jacobites, other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘the Young Chevalier’, and his noble defeat at Culloden…
Most Britons are proud of their country’s role in helping to bring about victory in the Second World War. There is nothing…
Imagine this scene: soldiers bring out the body parts of executed men and place them outside their barracks; their loved ones arrive…
The shock of the early Zeppelin raids initiated a host of unconventional countermeasures, including Professor Archibald Low’s project for a small radio-controlled…
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns’ book can, in essence, be divided into two distinct sections: his ‘junior’ and ‘senior’ officer days,…