Making an international, big-budget, action movie about Operation Market Garden was never going to be easy. To start with, the operation was…
‘Waterloo’ – and especially variations of the phrase ‘to meet one’s Waterloo’ – have come to signify a firm, conclusive end to…
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The world’s largest ever airborne operation was launched during September 1944, with less than a week of planning. This was one of…
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption…
The Roman legions needed support. By the 1st century AD, the citizen legionaries of Rome, drawn primarily from Italy, were supplemented by…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
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William F Buckingham has written what may become the definitive British account of the Battle of Arnhem. In a crowded field, Buckingham’s…
The generalship of Oliver Cromwell, England’s great revolutionary leader, has sometimes been criticised. Wrongly, argues Martyn Bennett, in this detailed analysis of…