When first approached to review Craig L Symonds’ World War II at Sea, I was somewhat ambivalent about how much value another…
David Hobbs’ carefully chosen title gives some indication of the political complexities surrounding his latest subject, as a book about the actual…
The General commanding the Bollockyboos Has strictly revised all his previous views… He keeps his battalion, untiring, approving, All moving and firing…
Close to Charing Cross station in London is the oddly named Ship and Shovell pub. Initially, this seems a strange combination, until…
The West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy had more or less terminated the slave trade on the West African coast by…
Ulysses Simpson Grant is probably the most recognisable army officer in the pantheon of American history. He is, at the same time,…
Some of us still remember the time quite vividly. By the end of 1967, the United States had been involved in the…
Taylor Downing reports on Peter Jackson’s new WWI centenary film. New Zealander Peter Jackson is known to cinema-goers for the lavish spectacles…
Patrick Boniface on the deaths in combat of regal warriors. The savagery of the Zulu Wars showed no respect for class or…
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