-In the closing days of May 1940 Britain teetered on the edge of a military disaster of unprecedented magnitude.
Sovereignty and the Sea explains how Indonesia succeeded in its extraordinery claim.
Five years ago, in a book I called The Face of Battle, I set out to explore the predicament of the individual on the battlefield. Though a practising military historian, and the colleague in my academic life of proffesional soldiers
Americans like to think of themselves as a peaceful and peace-loving people, and in remembering their own revolutionary past, American historians have long tended to focus on colonial origins and Constitutional aftermath, neglecting the fact that the American Revolution was a long, hard war.