Brad Gladman, Intelligence and Anglo-American Air Support in World War Two: The Western Desert and Tunisia, 1940-43. London: Palgrave, 2009. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. pp. 252 Brad Gladman’s work represents an important addition to the historiography of tactical air power development in both the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Force. His [...]
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Book Review – Intelligence and Anglo-American Air Support in World War Two: The Western Desert and Tunisia, 1940-43
Posted in Air Power History, Book Review, Military History, Second World War, War Studies, tagged Arthur Coningham, Book Review, Brad Gladman, Close air support, Desert Air Force, Intelligence, Royal Air Force, Second Battle of El Alamein, US Army Air Force on May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Book Review – The Pendulum of War
Posted in Book Review, Military History, Second World War, War Studies, tagged Battle of Gazala, Claude Auchinleck, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, North African Campaign, Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein, Second Battle of El Alamein, Western Desert Air Force on May 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
[Cross posted from Thoughts on Military History] Niall Barr, Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. London: Pimilico, 2005. 576pp. Illustrations, Maps, Notes, Index. £10.99 (pbk) The Battle of El Alamein is hotly contested ground, not just between the protagonists themselves but also by the many authors who have tried to describe and [...]
Book Review – Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship
Posted in Book Review, Military History, Naval History, Second World War, War Studies, tagged Battle of the Denmark Straits, Force H, HMS Hood, KMS Bismarck, Kriegsmarine, Royal Navy on March 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship. Newbury: Casemate, 2009. 319pp, Illustrations, Maps, Notes, Index, £19.99 (Hbk) Reviewed by Ross Mahoney, PhD Candidate, Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham The story of the KMS Bismarck has all the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy. The Bismarck was the centrepiece [...]
Book Review – The Glorious First of June
Posted in 18th Century, Book Review, Naval History, War Studies, tagged Fighting Temeraire, French Navy, Glorious First of June, Napoleonic Wars, Quercus Publishing, Reign of Terror, Royal Navy, Sam Willis on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sam Willis, The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror. London: Quercus, 2011. 434 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Limm, PhD Candidate, Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham The current naval historiography of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, is undergoing something of a renaissance, with a new inter-disciplinary approach being [...]
Book Review – Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-18
Posted in Book Review, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged Christopher Moore-Bick, First World War, Helion and Company, University of Birmingham, War Studies, Western Front on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Christopher Moore-Bick, Playing the Game: The British Junior Infantry Officer on the Western Front 1914-18. Solihull: Helion & Company Ltd. 2011. viii, 327 pp. £25.00 (Cloth) Reviewed by Andrew Duncan, PhD Candidate, Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham Christopher Moore-Bick studied at Cambridge and now works for the Ministry of Defence. Playing the Game [...]
Forthcoming Book Reviews
Posted in Book Review, Historiography, Military History, Naval History, War Studies, tagged Bismarck, Book Review, Germany, Somme, Western Front on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am pleased to announce that thanks to the generous support of Casemate Publishing we will be seeing more book reviews in the coming months. The first four reviews will be: Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship (Casemate Publishing, 2009) – Reviewed by Ross Mahoney Christopher Moore-Bick, Playing [...]
Book Review – War Studies Reader
Posted in Book Review, War Studies, tagged Book Review, Gary Sheffield, Historiography, King's College London, Military History, University of Birmingham, University of Wolverhampton, War Studies on August 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
[Cross-posted at Thoughts on Military History] War Studies Reader: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond edited by Gary Sheffield. London: Continuum, 2010. Tables. Notes. pp. 257 When I began my undergraduate degree in War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton back in 2001 it was a small subject that was only [...]