Iain King explores the military career of Chairman Mao China’s official view of Mao is that he was ‘70% right and 30%…
‘To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.’ John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971…
This month, Oxford University Press are giving away one prize of 15 books: a selection of the finest war and military history…
What did a British Army soldier have with him while fighting in the trenches of the First World War? Here, Peter Doyle and…
‘War is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfil our will. War is an act of violence pushed to…
Anyone planning to wade through the vast outpouring of literature on the First World War might do well to make July Crisis…
In the many future wars between English and Scots, was the continuing independence of Scotland ever seriously in question.…
This month we have a pair of tickets to the Battle Proms Open Air Picnic Concerts to be won. The Battle Proms…
The Lancastrians were a usurper dynasty. Their contested authority culminated in the Wars of the Roses, and later inspired Shakespeare’s history plays.…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King discovers a First World War artilleryman with a revolutionary treatise in his backpack. Born in 1889 into the…