Military

Michael Paris looks at the romanticised image of war in boys’ popular fiction prior to 1914, and at the sustaining appeal of the genre in spite of the realities of that event.

Jon Silverman asks whether Britain’s sporadic and tardy efforts to pursue Nazi war criminals reflects a lack of skill or a lack of will.

David McKinnon-Bell analyses the state of France around 1598 and explains why recovery under Henry IV was so rapid.  

Patrick Wilson assesses the importance of Operation Dynamo.

What did Hitler mean by Lebensraum? Did he attempt to translate theory into reality? Martyn Housden 'unpacks' the term and puts it into historical context.

Napoleon's forces surrendered to the British in Malta on September 5th, 1800.

David Chandler describes his first encounters with matters military that led him to abandon his plans to join the clergy to become a military historian.

To Cold War hawks the ambitions of Stalin lay behind Kim Il Sung. Only with the opening of archives some 50 years later did Soviet responsibility for the Korean War become known.

Richard Reid demonstrates that the West’s perceptions about warfare in the history of Africa have not changed much over the centuries.