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Robert Lyman
The Forever War
The Korean War is a ‘forgotten’ conflict, but one with brutal and present-day consequences 75 years after it began.
The Forever War One cold spring day early in the writing of this book, I stood in the midst of the main shopping thoroughfare in Bracknell and asked 62 random passers-by whether they had heard of six battles from British history, and the wars in which they were...
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World, by Phil Craig
A globe-crossing examination of the historical forces at play in the the final year of World War Two.
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World, by Phil Craig How does one make any sense of the end of the Second World War in Asia in 1945, a war that ended just as quickly and unexpectedly as it had begun? Thirty-nine agonizing months separated...
The Rise and Fall of the British Army by Ben Barry
This timely book is a love letter to the British Army.
The Rise and Fall of the British Army by Ben Barry This detailed though eminently accessible and readable book demonstrates that without an extensive land-based war fighting capability the UK would not have been able to respond to the range and extent of challenges...
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos, by Keith Lowe
This magnificent book traces the story of people in Naples, 1944, making it compelling and difficult to put down.
Keith Lowe has built a well-deserved reputation in recent years as a chronicler of the interface between military operations and civil society, especially once the fighting on a battlefield has ended. For instance, his ‘Savage Continent’ tracked the long, wearying...
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War, by Giles Milton
Giles Milton's latest and eminently readable book is full of a cast of sometimes larger-than-life characters.
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War What British diplomat earned his place in history by penning a note to his superior in London commenting mischievously on the name of his Turkish counterpart, Mustapha Kunt? You've guessed it:...
Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders, by James Holland & Al Murray
The combination of Murray and Holland is a marriage made in heaven.
Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders, by James Holland & Al Murray This brilliant book is what you get when you marry two first-class historians (and communicators) of the Second World War. I enjoyed its pace, its storytelling and the sheer...
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Forgotten Armour, by Jack Bowsher
This excellent book is an accessible study of the Burma campaign as a whole.
Jack Bowsher has set out in this book – his first – to reprise the role of armour in the Burma campaign. He has achieved much more, however, as this excellent book is an accessible study of the campaign as a whole. It has much to recommend it. The fruit of lots of...
Historical Heroes: Bill Slim
Some talk of Wellington and Marlborough as Britain’s greatest general, but Field Marshal William Slim is a name that is often overlooked.
Even the most sketchily educated Briton today will nevertheless recognise in the murky depths of their consciousness the name of that great British general of World War Two, Montgomery of Alamein. To an older generation perhaps another name resonates equally and...