Book Reviews
El Alamein The Battle That Turned the Tide of the Second World War (book)
By Mark Barnes - War History Online Released: 28th June 2013There is a lot of hyperbole about Alamein, but let’s be fair it matters to us because it was a British and Commonwealth victory that came after so much anguish. We’d had all those years… Read full review...
Helmand: The Diaries of Front-Line Soldiers (book)
By Paddy Ashdown, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG KBE PC Released: 20th May 2013A vivid portrait of life on the frontline through the diaries and recollections of soldiers who contend with moustache competitions one minute and life threatening action the next. Funny, heart breaking, absorbing and above all… Read full review...
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff (book)
By Kat Chin Released: 9th April 2013The Second World War is quite rightly remembered for the horrific loss of the lives of Allies, Jews, and those persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis, but it is all too often forgotten German citizens… Read full review...
Coastal Defence Batteries of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland & Isle of Man in the Second World War (book)
Released: 1st January 2013Up to and during the First World War, coastal artillery was concentrated on the major ports, some fourteen in all. The reasoning behind this being that the Royal Navy would keep any invasion fleet at… Read full review...
Imperial War Museum Desk Diary 2013 (book)
By Released: 12th December 2012Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was a British designer, writer, cartoonist, diarist and socialite, though he was best known for his glamorous and elaborately staged photographs of royalty and celebrities. What is less well known is that… Read full review...
The Kaiser's Reluctant Conscript (book)
By Chris Baker Released: 30th November 2012This is an unusual, educational and absorbing memoir of an infantryman's Great War and I recommend it. Translated from German, the writing is at times a little brusque and staccato in style but my goodness… Read full review...
Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards (book)
By Mark Barnes - War History Online Released: 30th November 2012I’m not an especially religious man, but I do believe in an essential goodness, and I see it in a lot of people. I married into a family of Scottish exiles who took their religion… Read full review...
Italy's Sorrow (book)
By Mark Barnes - War History Online Released: 12th November 2012This is not a pretty story from any perspective, there no sides with clean hands. The tragedy of Italy and it’s collapse into anarchy is well documented here. With the end of Mussolini’s state and… Read full review...
Dunkirk - The Men They Left Behind (book)
By Mark Barnes - War History Online Released: 11th November 2012D-Day has been done to death and the continuous re-interpretation of countless other events means that an endless number of books hit our shelves, often with very little in them to add to useful knowledge.… Read full review...
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