Passchendaele: What’s in a Name?
How did an evocatively named Flanders village become shorthand for a whole series of battles around the Belgian city of Ypres?
Gary Sheffield
Was the Somme an Exercise in Futility?
The first day of the Somme has become synonymous with incompetent leadership during the First World War. The true picture of the battle – and the role played by General Sir Douglas Haig – is more complex.
Key Books on the Battle of Waterloo
Gary Sheffield casts his eye over the latest publications.
The Great War was a Just War
It is time to ditch the Blackadder view of history, says Gary Sheffield. Britain was right to fight Imperial Germany in 1914.