How important are ‘decisive battles’ in the history of war? This is the central question addressed by Cathal Nolan in this magisterial…
There can be little doubt that the export of opium from India to China by, among others, the Honourable East India Company…
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…
By the time the Viet Cong flag was being raised across Saigon on 30 April 1975, the United States had spent the…
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,…
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption…
William F Buckingham has written what may become the definitive British account of the Battle of Arnhem. In a crowded field, Buckingham’s…