Author: Andrew Sangster

This book examines the nature of the secret services and the role of the secret police in Britain, Russia, and Germany during the interwar years. I...

A mistake is an error of judgement, a blunder is a mistake caused by carelessness or ignorance, implying incompetence. Blunders are not always the ...

This book examines the integrity of diary keeping and selects seven major diarists from Germany, Italy and Britain who wrote their diaries as the e...

As the war progressed Hitler did not need obedient bureaucrats like Keitel, failures like Paulus and was paranoid about having military leaders who...

World War II produced many histories which differ according to when and by whom they were written. Many historians tend to write in order to justif...

Under the surveillance of General von Seeckt the Germans re-established their military, which Hitler utilised for his aggression of recovering Germ...

Wars never run according to plan, perhaps never more so than during the Italian campaign, 1943-45, where necessary coordination between the differe...

A revealing yet accessible examination of the Nuremberg trial, and most crucially all 23 men who stood accused, not just the most infamousSpeer, He...

Stalin fabricated the myth that the Germans carried out the Katy massacre and the West accepted it while always suspecting the reality. In the same...

Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping t...

This work explores humankind's need for ownership, wealth and dominance which can lead to war, and a nationalistic approach with national identity ...