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Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
Talks about why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame.
A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England
The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years War is revealed in a new historical narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc to fresh and vivid life. In this …
Mud, Blood and Poppycock
The popular view of the First World War remains that of 'Blackadder': incompetent generals sending our soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that …
Men on Horseback
Sepoys in the Trenches
The Indian corps arrived in Europe just in time for the First Battle of Ypres. Regular soldiers all, they fought an enemy of whom they knew little, and in a cause not their own. …
The Mind Object
How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love Can a person relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear …
Wellington
The Duke of Wellington, the most successful of commanders, set a standard by which all subsequent British generals have been measured. His defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and his …