How Richard Fairey’s Swordfish plane changed history
If the Swordfish has lived on among British legends of the Second World War, the man whose name the…
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High explosive, damp squibs: the history of bombing raids
Governing from the Skies by Thomas Hippler examines the changing role of aerial bombing.
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Warning from a global era: the lessons we must learn from the 19th century
Richard J Evans’s sweeping history of 19th-century Europe, The Pursuit of Power, has much to offer in our current moment.
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When idealists go to battle: why the Spanish Civil War still matters
The long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War is more potent because the progressives lost.
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The way we war: a history of British national service
Reading this detailed account of the national service experience – peppered with moments of humour among the long years…
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How the west was lost: Frank Furedi’s First World War
The Great War’s greatest legacy is uncertainty and a never-ending search for meaning.
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“There are so many questions and as many answers again.”
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If only the Taliban were like us.
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