The Epic of Dunkirk, by E Keble Chatterton. A chronicle of one of the most gallant episodes in British history.
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Tally-Ho: Yankee in a Spitfire
Tally-Ho: Yankee in a Spitfire, by Arthur Gerald Donahue. The memoirs of an American pilot in the Royal Air Force in WW2
Fifty Years in the Royal Navy
Fifty Years in the Royal Navy, by Admiral Sir Percy Scott
Napoleon and His Marshals
Napoleon and His Marshals by A.G.Macdonell. A Classic work of military history, featuring all of Napoleons great marshals.
Narrative of My Escape From Slavery
Narrative of My Escape From Slavery by Moses Roper. One of the most important and authentic accounts of life in slavery.
The Last Great Naval War: An Historical Retrospective
The Last Great Naval War: An Historical Retrospective by A. Nelson Seaforth
Historical Heroes: Saul David on George Macdonald Fraser
Saul David, acclaimed historian of the Victorian period, recalls a meeting with the great writer.
But for George MacDonald Fraser and his wonderfully funny – and, to modern eyes, decidedly un-PC – Harry Flashman novels, I would not have become a historian. I read them in my teens and was immediately captivated by MacDonald Fraser’s colourful depiction of Victorian...
The Murder of Jack Clinton
Jack Clinton escaped one land war in Ireland, only to came across another in Arizona in 1915.
John Clinton, known to family and friends as ‘Jack’ couldn’t escape the land war. While he managed to avoid the worst of the Irish Land War of 1879-82 by emigrating with most of his siblings to the USA from rural County Meath, he fell victim to an equally vicious...
Why the Partition of Ireland?
On the 100-year anniversary of the founding of Northern Ireland, an account of the events that led to partition in May 1921.
Was the Partition of Ireland the ‘logic of the Irish situation’, or the failure of British statesmanship – or, as Irish nationalists have always believed, by Britain’s desire to hold on to part of Ireland? Was partition a necessary expedient or a deliberate strategy?...
The Last Bastion of Europe
The epic struggle between East and West, the Umayyad Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire during the Siege of Constantinople.
400 years before the First Crusade, Christianity was on its knees before an ascendant Muslim Caliphate. Yet only 80 years before that, in AD629, the late Roman Emperor Heraclius had staged a grandiose ceremony in the city of Jerusalem to mark the Empire’s final and...