Arthur W. Gullachsen, "Bloody Verrieres: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrieres-Bourguebus Ridges" (Casemate, 2021)
South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrières and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944--taking them was crucial if it was to ...
11 Feb 202258min
Daniel Finn, "One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA" (Verso, 2021)
When most people think of the Irish Republican Army, they naturally think of terrorism. But what of the political context that led to some 10,000 Irish nationalists to take up arms against a divided I...
10 Feb 20222h 22min
Alexander Lanoszka, "Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber. When a possible military crisis involving Russia, North Korea, or China rears its head, leaders and citizens alike raise concerns over the willingness ...
10 Feb 202242min
Paul French, "Bloody Saturday: Shanghai's Darkest Day" (Penguin, 2018)
The Thirties and Forties were some of the first instances of aerial bombardment of civilian populations—and an indication of their destructive power. We often point to the Nazi bombing in Guernica, Sp...
10 Feb 202239min
Nathaniel L. Moir, "Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
In Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare (Oxford UP, 2021), Dr. Nathaniel L. Moir studies the thought of this overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on co...
8 Feb 202243min
Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, Lviv… The city, which is located in the western part of Ukraine, evokes a highly entangled past that contains references to a number of nations, ethnicities, empires, states, and ...
8 Feb 20221h 1min
David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
Over 75 years have passed since the end of World War II, but the collective memory of the conflict remains potently present for the people of the Russian Federation. Professor David Hoffman, editor of...
4 Feb 20221h 8min
Simon Topping, "Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
In Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr. Simon Topping analyses the American military presence in Northern Ireland during the war, examining the role of ...
4 Feb 202251min
