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For many of us the Battle of Midway is just one more Hollywood spectacular in, to paraphrase Neville Chamberlain, a far-away sea of which...

(This review was first published in Fighting Times .) The Glorious First of June, 1 June 1794. Every researcher knows the excitement of...

Roosevelt and Churchill on USS Augusta where they agreed the text of the Atlantic Charter. I first read this book more than ten years ago...

Colville ‘The Fringes of Power’ Vol 1 (Sir John Rupert Colville was 24 years old when he was seconded from the Foreign Office to the post...

The birth of a diary ‘Ike says I’m to keep a diary.' With these words Captain Harry C Butcher, USNR, begins a diary like no other. He had...

An earlier version of this article appeared in Victorian Military History 2014. Jutland 1916 At 7.17 pm on 31 May 1916 Admiral Reinhard...

This is the text of my contribution to a 'Greatest Hero' event at the National Maritime Museum on 17 October. 2011. Patrick Bishop argued...

Review of H C Butcher ‘Three Years With Eisenhower’ ( Heinemann 1946). An accidental diarist ‘Ike says I’m to keep a diary.’ With these...