Military

Michael Howard on the culture of imperial Britain in the face of international competition in the economic and military spheres.

D.G. Chandler continues our series, looking at the relevance of military history in contemporary training for the armed forces.

Richard Holmes continues our series with a look at the Problems of Military Biography.

J.L. Pimlott looks at Military Administration and the Historian.

Why was Francis Drake in the Pacific in the 1570s? Was the Golden Hind bound on a trade voyage or was there a deeper political motive? The documents are lost, but David Cressy feels the historian can still speculate.

It is through reading the letters that the soldiers sent home, argues Frank Emery, that “the Victorian rank and file cease to be a mute and anonymous body of men marching past in scarlet or khaki columns.”

J.B. Donnelly looks at the many pictures carried off from Vienna by the victorious Italians, including the magnificent Madonna of the Orange Grove by Cima da Conegliano.

James A. Arvites argues that the defeat of the Roman army at Adrianople in AD 378 changed the face of the Empire and led to the replacement of the infantry by heavy cavalry as the mainstay of its forces.

Ian Beckett continues our series on military history with a look at War and Society.

David G. Chandler completes his series with a look at drill books and tactics.