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May
2023

When War Knocks on the Door: What Do Civilians Do?

WW2 Comparative History from BelowWritten by Claire Andrieu Unlike the objects of its title, the subject of this book did not fall from the sky. I did not set out to write a comparative history of...
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25
Apr
2022

WOMEN AT WAR

It is sometimes overlooked that many thousands of women served alongside men in the British armed forces during the Second World War. Over the conflict, some 600,000 women were absorbed into the three...
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24
Jan
2022

What is a “Dear John”? Revealing the...

Consult any dictionary of slang and you’ll find a definition something like this: a letter sent to a man (usually in uniform) by his girlfriend, fiancée or wife announcing the end of their relationship....
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25
Aug
2021

Assessing Afghanistan with the Unified War Theory

America’s hasty extrication from its war in Afghanistan was anything but smooth, and now the world’s leading superpower’s two-decade misadventure there has ended with a shocking, humiliating defeat....
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3
Aug
2021

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

In every bookshop in the English-speaking world, works on military history occupy at least half of the shelves devoted to ‘History’. I helped to create two of the titles on those shelves, as editor...
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3
Jun
2021

“It’s the regime, stupid!”

So said former CIA Director R. James Woolsey to the House Armed Services Committee in 1999, channeling what had become a consensus about Iraq in the U.S. foreign policy establishment by the end of the...
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6
Jul
2020

Strangling the Axis – Author Q and A

We asked author Richard Hammond the questions you wanted to know about his new book Strangling the Axis! Here are his answers: Was the @RoyalAirForce level of effort in the Mediterranean appropriate...
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24
Jun
2020

Sinking Feelings: the Cause of Allied Victory in...

‘My illness has a name: convoys’ was the gloomy remark from the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1943, as the Axis powers’ war in North Africa neared its disastrous conclusion. It is...
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Authors in Military History

Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History and an associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University. He has published forty books, and is the editor of The Cambridge History of Warfare and The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare