Making an international, big-budget, action movie about Operation Market Garden was never going to be easy. To start with, the operation was…
With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which…
‘Waterloo’ – and especially variations of the phrase ‘to meet one’s Waterloo’ – have come to signify a firm, conclusive end to…
Tim Bouverie’s Appeasing Hitler strides boldly and confidently through a decade of British political and diplomatic history. Such history could be dull,…
Seventy-five years after the event, Market Garden continues to grip historians and readers alike. It is one of those great ‘might have…
The world’s largest ever airborne operation was launched during September 1944, with less than a week of planning. This was one of…
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption…
The Roman legions needed support. By the 1st century AD, the citizen legionaries of Rome, drawn primarily from Italy, were supplemented by…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
William F Buckingham has written what may become the definitive British account of the Battle of Arnhem. In a crowded field, Buckingham’s…