The perhaps somewhat sensationalised title should not put one off. With great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight, Masters of Mayhem recounts the…
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…
David Hobbs’ carefully chosen title gives some indication of the political complexities surrounding his latest subject, as a book about the actual…
The General commanding the Bollockyboos Has strictly revised all his previous views… He keeps his battalion, untiring, approving, All moving and firing…
Close to Charing Cross station in London is the oddly named Ship and Shovell pub. Initially, this seems a strange combination, until…
The West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy had more or less terminated the slave trade on the West African coast by…
Daniel Siemens’s excellent new history of the Sturmabteilungen — the SA; better known as the Nazi Party’s Stormtroopers or Brownshirts — includes…
Some of us still remember the time quite vividly. By the end of 1967, the United States had been involved in the…
This month, three lucky winners have the chance to win a copy of The Military History of China. In The Military History of China,…