Nov 27, 2023 | Book Review, Newsletters, Women, WW2
Please see the latest Women in War (WiW) Newsletter. This issue has a strong East European flavour and features reviews of books by authors concerning Poland and Ukraine as well as a profile of a remarkable woman, Elzbieta Zawacka (image from Wikipedia) Elżbieta...
Feb 25, 2022 | Book Review, Member, Women
In the last Newsletter I reported that new member Santiago José de Castillo and colleagues were looking for a speaker on the First Afghan War: “I am contacting you because, as I mentioned to you during the New Researchers’ Conference, I belong to a history...
Nov 25, 2020 | Book Launch, Book Review, WW2
I have included a brief mention of this book because it will make a superb Christmas present for anyone who served in BAOR during the Cold War. John Russell gives us a detailed, exciting and beautifully mapped and photographed account of the battles fought by the...
Aug 6, 2020 | Book Review, Uncategorised, WW1, WW1 Centenary
Having just returned from a Tour of the First Battle of the Marne I am writing a brief note about the works of the French soldier and historian, Michel Goya https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Goya . I am most grateful to Tim Gale (French Tanks of the Great War)...
Apr 30, 2020 | Book Review
One of the plus points of the lockdown is that we perhaps have a little more time to read. At present I am much enjoying Bob Lynam’s Slim, Master of War: Burma and the Birth of Modern Warfare, 2005. Any work on Slim will draw on his Defeat Into...
