The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Reckoning is an engaging contribution to scholarship on the Second World War. Pivotally, Buttar rejects the Western-centric view of the ‘Eastern Front’ being a sub-event to the exploits of the Allies in seeking control over the West. Indeed, Buttar insists that...
It seems fitting given recent events, to examine the history of jihad in Northeast Africa through the lens of western interventionism. As Warren Dockter, author of Churchill and the Islamic World, puts it: Empire and Jihad is a ‘sobering bridge’ between British...
Rupert Wieloch’s new book, Liberating Libya, colourfully charts the relatively underknown history of Libya and its relationship with Britain. Bringing to bear the author’s full foreign policy expertise, personal knowledge of Libya and extensive research, it is a...
Defenders of the Norman Crown Although I like to think that I know a bit about medieval history, I must confess that I knew almost nothing about the Warenne Earls of Surrey when I started reading this book. I certainly had no idea how influential they were but now I...
Neil Faulkner, your book opens in 1851 with the explorer and missionary, David Livingstone, who encounters what turns out to be a huge slave trade that stretches from Africa to India. Whilst Britain had abolished slavery in 1833, what were the numbers that were...
“Very few battles actually change history”, posits Gordon Corrigan in his latest book Tipping Points of History: The Battle of Aegospotami. Intriguing the reader from the outset, he goes on to explain how inaccurately the phrase ‘crossroads of history’ is applied to...
On 31st January 2010, Trooper Corie Mapp of The Life Guards was driving his armoured vehicle on combat operations in Afghanistan when it ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The explosion that followed caused him massive injuries. But this was not the end of...
British Intelligence operations of the Second World War have been the frequent subject of both scholarly and creative attention, often appearing in popular culture in films such as The Imitation Game and A Call To Spy. Some might argue that there is little left to...
The geoscience and archaeology joint group that we formed over a quarter century ago is committed to a single goal: applying noninvasive geoscience subsurface mapping and exploration as a prerequisite for every invasive archaeological excavation. Richard Freund Since...
Prit Buttar, you’ve written about the defeat of Army Group South (AGS) in 1944. Why write about this theatre, and this stage of the Eastern Front? This was the year when the Red Army completed its evolution from the ‘stumbling colossus’ of 1941 to the war machine...
