Rear Guard Action

A colleague of mine gave me this interesting little book. When he read my Waterloo book he revealed that he’d done a documentary in 2011 o...

Hell Upon Water by Paul Chamberlain My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well written and well researched book about the p...

In December 1813 the British cabinet decided to create a force to operate in the Low Countries to assure that the area came under friendly ...

There's a bunch of books I hope to be reading this month in five groups:   The biographies of Willem I and Willem II regarding th...

Emigre and Foreign Troops in British Service (2) 1803-15 by René Chartrand My rating: 2 of 5 stars Second part of Chartrand’s overv...

Emigre and Foreign Troops in British Service (1) 1792-1803 by René Chartrand My rating: 2 of 5 stars First part of Chartrand’s over...

British Forces in the West Indies 1793-1815 by René Chartrand My rating: 3 of 5 stars Overview of British forces in the West Indies...

Spare me the lame attempts at humour based on national stereotypes. Even if they claim to aim for the opposite. Stephen Clarke´s 1000 Years ...

John Keegan´s Face of Battle was major influence on my thinking about warfare as it was for so many others. I read it in university as part...

I very much enjoyed the French movie La Religieuse, based on the late 18th century book by Denis Diderot , better known for his encyclopedi...