Author: Robert Kershaw

'Kershaws book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-side...

Before the war, Normandys Plage dOr coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, Field Marshal Erwin Romme...

One of the lancers rode by, and stabbed me in the back with his lance. I then turned, and lay with my face upward, and a foot soldier stabbed me wi...

In 1854 Britain and France were at war to save poor little Turkey, the crumbling Ottoman Empire, from the menace of Russian expansionism. On 25 Oct...

The first day of the Somme has had more of a widespread emotional impact on the psyche of the British public than any other battle in history. Now,...