In 1942 Sir Winston Churchill stirringly declared, ‘I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation…
Even though nearly 70 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, the statistics on the destruction caused by…
It is 1799. After a decade of political turmoil, more than 40,000 executions and a brief but bloody Reign of Terror, France…
MHM Editor Neil Faulkner spoke to Saul David about his major new book All the King’s Men: the British soldier from the…
Military Times Promotion SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre…
May 1940. Explosives expert Eddie Dawson and logistics specialist Major Sykes are sent to Eben Emael in Belgium, notoriously the most impregnable…
Anglo-Irish relations can be likened to a long unhappy marriage in which, although the couple have finally divorced, they still share the…
We look at a rich mix of militia tactics and anti-fascist politics in a British bestseller from the dark days of 1940.…
Wellington’s Peninsular campaign was waged amid a war that remains totally dominated by naval strategy within the British historical memory. Where glory…
Pen & Sword, £30 ISBN 978-0719563201 Archibald Wavell, as his name implies (his grandfather, father, and son were all soldiers, and all…