Dr Jonathan Boff, Lecturer in History, of the Centre for War Studies recently published his first book with Cambridge University Press. This is Jonathan’s first book and is based on […]
Here are details of an interesting project that the Navy Records Society is launching. The Naval Records Society is proud to the announce a new project, Navy Records Online, an […]
Britain’s armed forces are currently facing the most challenging period of change since the Second World War. Two significant and unpopular conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have exposed British warfighters […]
Communication has long been an essential part of successful warfare. General Sir Anthony Farrer-Hockley wrote that he knew ‘of no military operations which were not dependent to one degree or […]
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] Created in October 1941, RAF No. 201 (Naval Co-operation) Group existed as an independent unit until February 1944, with a complex mechanism of control shared […]
Here is the latest table of contents from the recent edition of War in History. Articles David H. Caldwell, ‘Scottish Spearmen, 1298–1314: An Answer to Cavalry’ In 1298, in a […]
It is always nice to see a new journal in the War Studies field. The IJ Group, which produces the Infinity Journal, is launching a new journal called the Journal […]
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] Operation JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942, has remained an area of intensive and divisive debate amongst historians. Debate remains over questions […]
This chapter looks at the various factors that influenced the transformation of offensive tactics in the Western Desert Force (later Eighth Army) of the British Army, from more conventional doctrines […]
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] The conventional wisdom is that British air defence was, in A. J. P. Taylor’s words, ‘despised and comparatively neglected before the war’ and that victory […]
