The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
This is a very engaging book, written in a very accessible style, and this remarkable book does far more than its title suggests. From a personal perspective, having been born in 1946 in Croydon, I grew up acutely conscious of the ‘presence’ of multiple bomb sites....
As with his previous, The Mongol Storm, with his research into The Crusader Storm, Nicholas Morton confirms his status as a skilful researcher and analyst of the continually contested region which we loosely define as the Middle or Near East. His sub-title – ‘A Global...
For some of us it might seem that there was little more to add to what we already knew about the last days of the Nazi regime in and around Berlin. Yet this meticulous description and analysis by Prit Buttar proves that this is not the case. His thorough research into...
Korea: War Without End, by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman This is of seminal importance to our appreciation of the importance of the Korean War. The authors combine strategic military awareness with the necessity of providing historical analysis built on thorough...
Opening The Gates of Hell - Review For many of us Operation Barbarossa reaches its point of maximum impact with the relentless siege of Leningrad and the battle of Stalingrad. These two cornerstones in our awareness remind us of the extent of the German advance in...
This work by Prit Buttar enhances his reputation as a detailed chronicler of the military campaigns in Eastern Europe in the Second World War. His understanding of the nature of the campaigns waged by both sides during the second phase of the siege of Leningrad is...
The historic role and place of the Templars in European history is interwoven with legend and indeed, as Steve Tibble has demonstrated in this very closely argued work, it has attracted any number of misrepresentations and false trails. This book offers us discussion...
This book has such a level of coherence and insight that it will be read in a single session. Any book that manages to encompass the notion of L. P. Hartley that ‘the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there’; Voltaire’s observation on the execution...
