Like the first volume, Britain’s War is not a military history, although the great battles of the war are described in some…
The approach is admirably interdisciplinary, blending traditional archaeological fieldwork with historical documentation, and analysis of 38 photographs from the 15th International Brigade.…
Black’s ‘shotgun’ approach takes us from Thucydides to Vergennes via Clausewitz, Napoleon, and Hitler, as he attempts to blend incisive historical insight…
Sinclair McKay’s well-researched, detailed, and all-embracing book is the first major study of the bombing of Dresden to be published for 15…
Nigel West, a renowned expert who writes extensively about British intelligence, reveals in this book the operations of Britain’s overseas intelligence gathering…
Fiennes had picked his moment well. Ever since the dramatic Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, the press, and to some degree the…
But there is a clear difference between soldiers who fight for their own national army – or, it may be, their own…
Anderson, an American history professor who has taught about the war for 20 years – ‘a Southerner teaching in South Carolina’, he…
The Battle of Waterloo is intrinsically linked to the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon, the towering military figures of the early 19th…
Max Hastings, noted historian and journalist, is a titanic force in British history, with 27 books to his name – many of…