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...
Trevor James
Opening the Gates of Hell, by Richard Hargreaves
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...
Hero City: Leningrad 1943-44, by Prit Buttar
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...
Templars, by Steve Tibble
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...
Ten Cities that Led the World, by Paul Strathern
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...





