This book is beautifully written, brilliantly structured, immensely moving, and deeply disturbing. It cannot be recommended strongly enough – especially for those…
In 1798, less than a decade before Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British victory and a key moment in…
Although the title says ‘written at the time’, this is not a collection of personal memoirs or diaries. Nor is it the…
Sometimes poor quality-control can be as lethal as bad design – this was certainly true in the case of HMS Glatton.…
There are numerous histories of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (to give the ‘English’ Civil Wars their more-accurate title), as such,…
Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
We’re giving away four copies of Heroes of the Holocaust, courtesy of Ebury Press. In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters…
The find is believed to have been part of an arms shipment that landed in Lochaber a fortnight after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s…
Yet, from the outset, this is a history with a difference. Set in the aftermath of D-Day, it concerns SABU-70, a 12-man…