Military

General Sir Robert Wilson’s impressions in 1807 and 1812; a paper delivered by D.G. Chandler at the Congress of Historical Sciences, Moscow, 1970.

Amid the disasters of the First Afghan War, the courage and buoyancy of Lady Sale stands out — James Lunt describes her as the shining epitome of “a soldier's wife."

“How different were our feelings” wrote a Scottish sergeant, “from many of our countrymen at home, whose ideas of the French character were drawn from servile newspapers and caricatures in print shops.”

John Terraine studies the effects of Napoleonic doctrine upon the leadership of mass armies in the Industrial Age.

Eventually sunk during the defence of Leningrad, the unfinished German cruiser Lützow is a fitting symbol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Julian Symons describes how, in the year of South African crisis, 1899, Buller, once regarded as the ablest of British commanders, was stricken by a strange failure of nerve.

In modern French politics, writes John Terraine, the Army and its champions — “still treading the long road back from Sedan” — have sometimes played a dangerous part.

No outbreak of jingoism and no immediate rush to enlist greeted the outbreak of the First World War.

Neglected by politicians, today’s British army bears an alarming resemblance to the force of 1914.