Paul Cartledge

Leonidas’s Last Stand

Thermopylae: Great Battles

By Chris Carey

Malcolm Murfett

Isle of the Dead

Crucible of Hell: Okinawa – The Last Great Battle of the Second World War

By Saul David

Dennis Sewell

Ruc-Up

War Without Honour

By Fred Holroyd with Nick Burbridge

Toby Buchan

Trouble Is, It’s True

Norway 1940

By François Kersaudy

Mihir Bose

Big Bad Wolf

Threat from the East?

By Fred Halliday

The Afghan Syndrome

By Bhabani Sen Gupta

Roots of Confrontation in South Asia

By Stanley Wolpert

Francis Wheen

Fictive Propaganda

War Without Frontiers

By Andrew Osmond

A Very British Coup

By Chris Mullin

Michael Arditti

The Medea of the Reich With the Ice-Cold Eyes

Madga Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde

Max Egremont

The Cold Cruelty of the German Army

Berlin: The Downfall 1945

By Antony Beevor

Mark Almond

There Are, Indeed, Some Lessons to be Learned

Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

By Michael Ignatieff

Kosovo: War and Revenge

By Tim Judah

Adam Zamoyski

They Shall Not Pass

The Fortess: The Great Siege of Przemyśl

By Alexander Watson

Keith Lowe

Low-flying Legends

Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

By Max Hastings

John Simpson

In Fact He Doesn’t Like Television News At All

The Warrior's Honour

By Michael Ignatieff

Frank McLynn

An Archer Could Beat the Knight in Armour

Medieval Warfare: A History

By Maurice Keen (ed)

Richard Overy

Trial by Firestorm

Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945

By Aaron William Moore

Avi Shilon

Don’t Mess with the Mossad

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

By Ronen Bergman

Richard Overy

Won in the Post

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

Adrian Weale

Death at Wireless Ridge

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

By Helen Parr

Martin Walker

Military Diplomacy

Overlord

By Max Hastings