My heart sank slightly when I was asked to review this book. I expected yet another dirge about needless casualties, poor generalship,…
While admitting that Haig was no genius, revisionist historians have argued that by 1918, he was able to co-ordinate successfully all elements…
Taylor Downing reports on Peter Jackson’s new WWI centenary film. New Zealander Peter Jackson is known to cinema-goers for the lavish spectacles…
The December issue of MHM, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe to the…
A century ago, between 8 August and 11 November 1918, after four years of trench stalemate, the Allied armies on the Western…
The November issue of MHM, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe to the…
William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load brings to light the experiences of 1.5 million African porters during the First World War. Seema…
Seema Syeda reviews the newly remodelled RAF Museum. Museums, I thought in a rather prosaic way as I sat underneath the bomb…
No general in American history held the kind of absolute power General Pershing wielded. With complete backing from President Woodrow Wilson and…
Taylor Downing reveals an official cover-up of mental illness in the later years of the war. It was not just the…