Military
Historiography in Action
‘The Storm of War reminds us that Roberts is a first-rate writer’
Ripping Yarns
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts
The Home Front
‘What’s the point of waging a war thousands of miles away when you cringe before our own Taliban?’
A Mad Call to Arms
As Middle East countries rush to acquire nuclear weapons, the Cold War stalemate will not apply in the region
Arms and the Man
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen; War Since 1990 and War: A Short History by Jeremy Black
Loose Cannon
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
D-Day’s Divided Divisions
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
Life After the ‘Game-Changer’
‘An Iranian bomb would enable Tehran to fulfil the goals of the revolution without using it’
Don’t Write off America
It’s fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don’t bet on it – still less wish for it
From Treblinka to Tannenberg
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal