Category: Recommended Reading
The Battle of Culloden — It’s Time to Rethink Britain’s Storied Triumph Over the Jacobites
“Things have changed, but the popular image of Culloden remains: a battle lost by swords against muskets, by tribesmen fighting regulars, by absolute monarchy fighting constitutional authority.” By Murray Pittock NO BATTLE OUT of living…
Wars of Words – Ten Must-Read Memoirs from the First World War
“A person could spend a lifetime poring over nothing but memoirs from the period and never hope to read all of them. Yet, there are a number of works from the Great War that stand…
‘The Neptune Monograph’ – Historians Launch Campaign to Restore a Trove of Top Secret D-Day Documents
“Only a few men saw the Neptune Monograph before D-Day and after the war, it almost disappeared from history.” IT WAS ONE of the most closely guarded secrets of the Second World War – a…
Meet John C.H. Lee — The Forgotten Logistical Mastermind Behind the Allied Invasion of Europe
“Throughout the brutal summer and fall of 1944, Lee kept the Allied troops fed, their guns loaded and their tanks gassed up” No invasion in history can match the mind-boggling scale of D-Day. The Allies’…
Bitter Lessons – What Can We Learn from the Allies’ Disastrous Norway Campaign of 1940?
“Today, few people outside Norway know much about the campaign. Yet it contains lessons that resonate strongly with more recent campaigns such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan.” By John Kiszely CAMPAIGNS THAT END in…
Anatomy of Failure – Historian Explains Why America Loses Every War It Starts
“Every war the United States has started, and every time it employed military force without just cause, it has lost or failed.” By Dr. Harlan Ullman DOES HISTORY MATTER? If it does, why is it…
