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Uncle BillFrank Owen
Mar 15
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How - and why - did the Nazis get to power?Why is this question, which never seems to go away, still important?
Mar 13
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A War of EmpiresIn paperback soon (9th May in UK; 11th May in USA)!
Mar 28
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Rivers in war and peaceLieutenant Colonel Gordon Graham MC*
Mar 11
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Providing ‘Aid to the Civil Power’ in Colonial India
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Is the tank dead?
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A Mosquito DFC in the family. Who knew?
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Writing about the British Army
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Thank goodness for a well-oiled infantry battalion..
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What happened to Major General John Grover at Kohima?
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Private Richard Chuck, aka The Incorrigible RogueBy Bill Slim
Mar 10
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India’s Political Future: A View from a BystanderI have just come back from one of my twice-yearly visits to India, and was describing my latest visit to a British friend. Since I first visited (very…
Mar 3
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Black and White or 'How to lose a War' The White Regime and the Problem of Insurgency – Rhodesia 1965 to 1979
Feb 28
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Second Lieutenant Duff Cooper and the practice of Auftragstaktik, 1918Every now and then an old battle resurrects itself to rage across social media about the origins and practice of the word Auftragstaktik. In these…
Feb 25
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Come with me to the battlefields of North Eastern IndiaFollowing a pleasing number of requests I am happy to announce that my friends at Sampan Travel have organised a series of very special guided tours to…
Feb 21
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Nigel Biggar and the battle for historyHyperbole? Some people think so. A historian of empire at a well-known British university - incidentally one where I received one of my post-graduate…
Feb 21
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Nirad Chauduri and how to interpret Britain's imperial historyOne of my repeated irritations at the quality of public discourse on imperialism in Britain today is its woolly, moralising and overly-sentimental…
Feb 14
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Providing ‘Aid to the Civil Power’ in Colonial IndiaField Marshal Sir William Slim
Dec 23, 2022
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Providing ‘Aid to the Civil Power’ in Colonial India
13
10
Is the tank dead?
31
20
A Mosquito DFC in the family. Who knew?
23
10
Writing about the British Army
16
6
Thank goodness for a well-oiled infantry battalion..
23
10
What happened to Major General John Grover at Kohima?
17
4
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The War Room

Ideas and commentary on historical matters and subjects associated with modern international relations, sometimes associated with my writing, and sometimes not!
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