This month Keith Robinson has found a sprawling ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of an aviation museum behind a Norfolk pub. Near Bungay, close to the…
Pen & Sword, £30 ISBN 978-0719563201 Archibald Wavell, as his name implies (his grandfather, father, and son were all soldiers, and all…
Pen & Sword, £20.95 ISBN 978-0691008530 One thousand Soviets died on average every hour from June 1941 until May 1945. Modern studies…
Pen & Sword, £19.99 ISBN 978-1848843622 It was Erich Ludendorff, who, in writing his memoirs in 1923, christened Haig ‘Master of the…
Pen & Sword, £19.99 ISBN 978-1848841802 This book provides an analysis of intelligence gathering and implementation during the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879.…
Continuing our review of military classics, Military Times looks at A J P Taylor’s controversial publication on the causes of the Second…
The Command of the Air is the greatest military treatise on air war ever written – a dogmatic manifesto promising victory through…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
