The Novgorod’s design originated in 1868, when the Scottish shipbuilder John Elder proposed widening the beam of a warship to reduce the…
The life of a journalist who was never far from the front-line: George Orwell. His writing sought to rationalise and navigate the…
Making an international, big-budget, action movie about Operation Market Garden was never going to be easy. To start with, the operation was…
With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which…
Tim Bouverie’s Appeasing Hitler strides boldly and confidently through a decade of British political and diplomatic history. Such history could be dull,…
Seventy-five years after the event, Market Garden continues to grip historians and readers alike. It is one of those great ‘might have…
This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars. The English Civil Wars tore families…
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 story of Julius Caesar’s military career is that of a special relationship between a brilliant commander and an elite fighting force.…