Winning the War
A new booklet on the Ministry of Information and its wartime messages to the British public.
Military
The Siege of Vienna: 1683’s Winners and Losers
The defeat of the Ottoman army outside the gates of Vienna in 1683 is usually regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. But how significant was it really, and for whom?
The Peasants' War
Lyndal Roper finds a new book on the German uprising essential reading
French Peasants in the Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years War was fought on French soil. What effects did this have on the lives of the rural French communities?
Britain and the Origins of the First World War
David French presents an overview of the historiography on the subject.
Why War?
John Keegan reflects on the motives for war throughout human history.
War and Man's Past
'War, far from being an exact science, is a terrible and impassioned drama' wrote Baron de Jomini in 1862. John Keegan argues that it is this drama that military historians must confront in their probe into man's past.
Jameson's Raid - The Prelude to the Boer War
Denis Judd reviews an infamous episode in 1895 in the Transvaal.
Reading History: The Spanish Civil War
Paul Preston looks at the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.
Poland's Dream of Past Glory
Norman Davies finds that Poland is a repository of ideas and values which can outlast any number of military and political catastrophies.