Military

'War, far from being an exact science, is a terrible and impassioned drama' wrote Baron de Jomini in 1862. John Keegan argues that it is this drama that military historians must confront in their probe into man's past.

Denis Judd reviews an infamous episode in 1895 in the Transvaal.

Paul Preston looks at the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.

Ian Roy reviews a title on one aspect of the English Civil War.

John Morrill examines the historiography of the English Civil Wars.

During the Highland rebellions from the mid-seventeenth century, explains David Stevenson, the fighting highlanders developed a remarkable military tactic which terrified their enemies.

The Falkland Islands were at the centre of dispute in 1770 – but was the conflict really over those far-away islands, or was it the political future of the French Secretary of State, Choiseul, that was at stake?

This article by Heather Norris and Roger Kain illustrates some of the ways in which increasingly elaborate methods of town fortification affected the nature of urban development in European towns, and how the eventual removal of anachronistic defences provided opportunities for large scale urban redevelopment, extension and embellishment.

Malcolm Vale