During the second half of the 17th century, France underwent a military transformation of such magnitude that in the space of a…
The First World War created new experiences of pain and suffering, and had profound consequences for the shape of wars to come.…
Hermann Balch has been described as the ‘greatest German general no one ever heard of’. Stephen Robinson, a graduate of the Australian…
Neil Faulkner reviews this compelling biography of Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant academic physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who has been described…
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once…
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,…
William F Buckingham has written what may become the definitive British account of the Battle of Arnhem. In a crowded field, Buckingham’s…
Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, described the desertion of the Royal Navy to Parliament in 1642 as an ‘unspeakable ill consequence…
When first approached to review Craig L Symonds’ World War II at Sea, I was somewhat ambivalent about how much value another…