Andrew Lambert Archives - Aspects of History

No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One, by Andrew Lambert

As debate intensifies over Britain’s role in world security, Andrew Lambert offers a timely reassessment of the country’s 19th-century grand strategy.

Michael Barritt

It seems apt that the paperback edition of Andrew Lambert’s gripping analysis in No More Napoleons should be published as Britain’s contribution to the preservation of the security of the continent of Europe, and indeed the wider world, is under debate and our very...

No More Napoleons: Andrew Lambert Interviewed

In examining the 'Wellington System', the naval historian challenges the traditional view of complacent British diplomacy in Europe during the 19th century and up to WW1.

Andrew Lambert

Andrew Lambert, in No More Napoleons, you describe Britain’s strategy between 1815 and 1914 as “book-ended by existential total wars”. What prompted you to reconsider the 19th century not as an age of complacency, but instead a hundred years of vigilance? The tendency...

Sea Power, Strategy, and Europe

By securing the Low Countries and maintaining control of the seas, British statesmen including Wellington created a system that balanced the continent's powers and preserved stability for a century until 1914.

Andrew Lambert

While it is often thought that British military engagement in northwestern Europe ended with Waterloo in 1815 and resumed, a century later, with the First World War in 1914 – with a few periods of invasion anxiety surfacing around the middle of the 19th century –the...

The British Way of War: Andrew Lambert Interview

We discussed Sir Julian Corbett and the British Way of War with the master naval historian

Andrew Lambert

Andrew Lambert, your new book is based on Sir Julian Corbett. He was a fascinating man, with many interests outside of military strategy, but he’s not as well-known as he should be. Why is that? Despite his critical role in capturing and distilling the essence of...

Julian Corbett: Military Genius

Julian Corbett, the great naval strategist, was a British Clausewitz. Are we following his doctrine today?

Andrew Lambert

The British Way of War is about the interconnected lives of a man and an idea, lives that reached a climax in the catastrophe of the First World War Western Front. Great ideas do not emerge in a vacuum, they are shaped by individuals, and reflect the time in which...