The guns of August 1918: the Allied counter-offensive in the Somme Sector
The German Spring Offensive, which began with Operation Michael in March 1918, had culminated by the Second Battle of the Marne in mid-July 1918.
Shadow wars: the secret struggle for the Middle East by Christopher Davidson – Book Review
In conversations over raki with my ‘middle eastern’ friends, the topic sometimes turns to how the West is seeking to destabilise the region and prevent it from realising the peace […]
Was General Sir Stanley Maude Poisoned?
Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley ‘Joe’ Maude was one of the First World War’s most successful fighting Generals.
The Future of War: A History by Laurence Freedman – Book Review
The Future of War is a history of predictions about the character of war and the reduced likelihood of war.
Directorate S: the C.I.A. and America’s secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll – Book Review
The title of this book does not do its significant contents justice.
Soldiers and civilization: how the profession of arms thought and fought the modern world into existence by Reed Robert Bonadonna – Book Review
Soldiers and Civilization examines the history of the military profession in the Western World from the ancient Greeks to the present day.
Why we fight by Mike Martin – Book Review
Why We Fight explores the question: “Why do human beings fight?”
Young Hitler: the making of the Führer by Paul Ham – Book Review
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the “most stupendous experience of my life”.
