-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.
He attributes this book to his having been one of the few graduate students to have the opportunity to study fully under the great Siberian historian George Lantzeff In the twenty years following his studies with Lantzeff at the University of California in Berkeley.