Kings Mountain 1780
One of the great pleasures of writing military history is the fact that you can look into a familiar subject more deeply and uncover a few surprises.
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US Soldier vs Japanese Infantryman: Philippines 1944–45
The liberation of the Philippines was the largest American campaign of the war against Japan.
Renaissance Polish Armies 1492–1569
The Polish military of the Renaissance has not received much attention in English-language works, but it was nevertheless a crucial period during which it evolved from the late medieval model into the famous Polish military of the latter part of the 16th century and the 17th century.
Origins of the Kokoda 1942–43 Campaign
By July 1942, having captured the oil of the Dutch East Indies, Japan had achieved its main war aim.
Campaign: The Gulf War, 1990–91
This subject interested me more than many other titles since I had a more personal connection to the conflict than any of the other historical events I had written about.
The Sino-Indian War, 1962
Although India was among the first countries to grant diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1951 changed the situation, with Chinese maps claiming territory south of the McMahon Line (agreed as part of the 1914 Simla Convention) and periodic Chinese cross-border incursions.
ROMAN INFANTRY HELMETS
Until the last quarter of the 20th century, the modern impression of Roman helmets was dominated, as with so much about the Roman Army, by the reliefs on the helical frieze on Trajan’s Column in the centre of Rome.
Enemies of Liberty: The Continental Army Against the Corps of Hesse-Cassel
Great Britain would not have been able to wage war as it did during the American Revolution without the assistance of a number of German states, most notably that of Hessen-Cassel. Despite pre-existing colonial discontent, the outbreak of armed hostilities in April 1775 caught both the British government and its military badly unprepared – the peace-time army was small, and augmentation and expansion to the size required to wage war first in North America and, after 1778, across the globe, would take considerable time.
Putin’s Outsourced Warfighting
One of the striking features of Russia’s current war in Ukraine is that it is often, perhaps inaccurately, described as a “mercenary war” because it is being fought not by conscripts serving out their national service, or even reservists summoned back to arms, but by volunteers
Across Generations
I’ve found myself in a number of email conversations with various family members of these men, mainly children, and now a granddaughter. I’ve heard stories of the later lives of men who “were very private about their time in World War II,” or who “never talked much about it.”
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