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Normandy: The Sailors' Story A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle of France by Nick Hewitt Yale, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 460 In December last year, the last surviving D-Day [...]

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts William Collins, [pounds sterling]26, pp. 540 Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-1940 by Richard [...]

The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy Head of Zeus, [pounds sterling]35, pp. 650 History doesn't have to be 'useful' to be compelling--witness, [...]

Allan Mallinson Peace, War and Whitehall: A Memoir by Field Marshal Lord Guthrie Bloomsbury, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 288 A headline in the Mail on Sunday, taken up eagerly by the [...]

The Sinking of the Bliicher: The Battle of Drobak Narrows, April 1940 by Geirr Haarr and Tor Jorgen Melien Greenhill Books, [pounds sterling]29.95, pp. 432 In the conclusion to this [...]

The Path to Peace: Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon Atlantic Books, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 350 This profound and emotion-laden book ends, as did the first world war, [...]

Sir: Andrew Roberts is correct in every detail about the National Army Museum ('Notes on', 25 June). The expensively refurbished museum of five years ago was a monstrous exercise in [...]

Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby Viking, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 620 Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns Wildfre, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 400 The [...]

At Close Range: Life and Death in the Artillery Regiment 1939-45 by Peter Hart Profile Book, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 575 'Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,/ But he'll [...]

African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 by Robert Gaudi Hurst, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 436 What's going on with book reviews? Here is [...]

Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942 The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop Viking, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 320 In my mother's final days we had a long conversation about the second [...]

A Peer Among Princes: The Life of Thomas Graham, Victor of Barrosa, Hero of the Peninsular War by Philip Grant Pen & Sword, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 240 Why does [...]

Rorke's Drift and Isandlwanaby Ian BeckettOUP, 18.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 225On 22 January last year, the entrance whiteboard at London Underground's Dollis Hill carried a brief factual statement:A female passenger [...]

Sir: There was an egregious error in my review of Peter Hart's At Close Range: Life and Death in the Artillery Regiment 1939-45 (Books, 16 January). Owing to my poor [...]

MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry Yale, [pounds sterling]20, pp. 327 War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and [...]

This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon by Tim Clayton Little Brown, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 448 Laws and sausages, we know, are better not seen in the making; [...]

It is always a delight to drive the country roads of Hampshire to see the man known throughout the army simply as 'Dwin'--Field Marshal Lord Bramall. Until quite recently, I [...]

Sir: Mark Bostridge pays me a great compliment in saying that my Fight to the Finish is 'notable for its clarity, and anyone requiring a digestible narrative summary of the [...]

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Bodyguard by Guy de la Bedoyere Yale, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 344 The history of an army is essentially the history of its [...]

Boots on the Ground: Britain and Her Army Since 1945 by General Sir Richard Dannatt Profile, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 391 It's not immediately obvious, but the silhouette on the [...]

From Byron to Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers by Nir Arielli Harvard, 27.95 [pounds sterling], pp. 295 What's the point of a cover if not to judge [...]

Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski C. Hurst & Co, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 400, ISBN 9781849045513 'Of all civilisation's occupational categories, that of soldier [...]

Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire by Trevor Royle Little Brown, 25 £, pp. 409, ISBN 9781408704011 What a wretched lot the Stuarts were, the [...]

After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe by Michael Jones Publisher, 25£, pp. 400, ISBN 9781848544949 Spectator Bookshop, 20 £ 'If the war is lost, [...]

High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Christopher L. Elliott Hurst, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 288, ISBN 9781849044608 Spectator Bookshop, 20.00 [pounds sterling] The author [...]

Sir: Ralph Dunn says (Letters, 12 August) that my piece 'A Fighting Chance' (5 August) is a plea to maintain the size of the army at the expense of the [...]

'We remember it not only for the rain that fell, the mud that weighed down the living and swallowed the dead, but also for the courage and bravery of the [...]

Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940 by John Kiszely Cambridge Military Histories, 34.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 390 Amid the shambles that was the Anglo-French campaign in [...]

Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson Weidenfeld, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 544 On 7 December 1941, without declaration of war, 350 Japanese carrier-borne aircraft struck at the [...]

THE ADVENTURES OF COLONEL DAFFODIL by Major-General Sir Roy Redgrave Pen & Sword, £19.99, pp. 208, ISBN 9781844155255 In 2000, in these pages, I reviewed a volume of reminiscences by [...]

THE WAR FOR ALL THE OCEANS : FROM NELSON AT THE NILE TO NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins Little, Brown, £20, pp. 534, ISBN 0316728373 . [...]

COBRA II: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor Atlantic Books, £25, pp. 603, ISBN 1843543524 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) [...]

THE ROAD TO RIVOLI: NAPOLEON'S FIRST CAMPAIGN by Martin Boycott-Brown Cassell, 20 £, pp. 560, ISBN 0304353051 I once heard of a vicar who, as the end of Lent approached, [...]

The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army by Richard Mead Pen & Sword, 15.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 288, ISBN 9781848844650 The fascination with [...]

The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World by Jonathan Powell Bodley Head, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 340, ISBN 9781847921222 This is a clever publishing idea, a [...]

Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace by Matthew Green Portobello, 20 £, pp. 336, ISBN 9781846273292 Spectator Bookshop, 18 £ [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Matthew Green, former Financial Times and Reuters [...]

Victoria's Cross by Gary Mead Weidenfeld, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 288 ISBN 97801843542698 Spectator Bookshop, 22.50 [pounds sterling] 'It is the task of a Patton or a Napoleon to persuade [...]

RUSSIA AGAINST NAPOLEON by Dominic Lieven Allen Lane, 30 £, pp. 617, ISBN 9780713996371 [telephone] 24 £ (plus 2.45 £ p&p) 0870 429 6655 I n reviewing Robert Harvey's The [...]

Napoleon's Wars by Charles Esdaile Allen Lane, 30 £, pp. 621, ISBN X9780713997156 [telephone] 24 £ (plus 2.45 £ p&p) 0870 429 6655 What marks out the Napoleonic wars from [...]

THE TERROR BEFORE TRAFALGAR by Tom Pocock John Murray, 20 £, pp. 260, ISBN 0719562805 On 19 August 1805, two months before his death at Trafalgar, Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson rejoined [...]

THE PENINSULAR WAR by Charles Esdaile Penguin/Allen Lane, 25 £, pp. 600, ISBN 0713992395 Even Churchill might have been discouraged had he, instead of Lord Portland, been prime minister and [...]

ALAMEIN by Jon Latimer Murray, 25 £, pp. 400, ISBN 0719562031 This year is the 60th anniversary of the battle of Alamein. The name may not quite have the resonance [...]