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‘The Red Army could have defeated Nazi Germany without Allied help,’ records The Times of London, ‘according to two thirds of Russians, who are adopting an increasingly positive view of Joseph Stalin’s wartime leadership despite the enormous casualties suffered under his command.’ These ...
Over 100 years ago in 1915, a German pilot, Lieutenant Gunther Pluschow, embarked on one of the great adventure stories of the First World War. Told that he was being sent to Donington Hall in Leicestershire, a prisoner of war camp for officers, he resolved to escape, and in the process became ...
There are a number of things that Winston Churchill and Marshal Carl-Gustav Mannerheim – the father of modern Finland - have in common, which engendered in each a certain admiration for the other. They were both aristocrats, cavalrymen, immensely well-travelled (including in India), Great War ...
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What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in?It’s much harder getting into the motivations and mindsets of pre-Enlightenment people, and often requires a higher level of theology than I have. The Enlightenment was the first period in history that the primary motivation was not fear, mostly fear of God. The fact ...
Masters & Commanders, when published in 2008, offered a new ...Book Reviews
If not for such fierce competition (in the form of such works as Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Churchill: Walking with Destiny and Masters & Commanders) one might be able to unequivocally say that George III is the author's masterpiece. This biography teems with detail, ideas and elegance. ...