Martin Walker

Military Diplomacy

Overlord

By Max Hastings

Leo McKinstry

Shoot for the Sky

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World’s First Air Force

By Richard Overy

Jonathan Healey

How We Learned to Love the Arquebus

The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

By Steven Gunn

Jan Morris

Rather Like Margaret

Joan of Arc

By Mary Gordon

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader

By Kelly Devries

Sebastian Faulks

How They Saw It

To the Last Man: Spring 1918

By Lyn Macdonald

Robert Gerwarth

Endgame

1917: War, Peace, and Revolution

By David Stevenson

Christopher Coker

All Tomorrow’s Battles

The Future of War: A History

By Lawrence Freedman

David Stafford

Leading Questions

The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre

By Helen Fry

Owen Bennett-Jones

Losing Battle

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan 2001–2014

By Theo Farrell

Kathleen Burk

How Much do We Want to Know?

The First World War, Volume I: To Arms

By Hew Strachan

Claus Von Bulow

Churchill Wanted to Hang Them Out of Hand

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials

By Telford Taylor

Leo McKinstry

Fronting it Out

The War in the West: A New History – Volume 2, The Allies Fight Back 1941–1943

By James Holland

Peter Jones

Fight Club

The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece

By Jennifer T Roberts

John Gray

Terms of Engagement

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

By David Armitage

Piers Brendon

No Honest Mistake

Iraq: The Cost of War

By Jeremy Greenstock

Frank McLynn

Down & Out in Nagaland

Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle

By Robert Lyman

Jeremy Lewis

Gubbins’s Guerillas

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill’s Mavericks – Plotting Hitler’s Defeat

By Giles Milton

Richard Cockett

Where Will It End?

ISIS: A History

By Fawaz A Gerges

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

By Joby Warrick

Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror

By David Kilcullen