Long before that ghastly and quite unnecessary slogging match in the mud which we now call the First World War had dragged to its blood-soaked conclusion the be

Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and after their deaths, have been att

Despite the substantial output of revisionist scholarship over the last decade reappraising the performance of the British Army on the Western Front during the

“An accessible, well-honed study of two fascinating characters” who famously fought each other in numerous battles during WWII, from Egypt to D-Day (Kirkus)

Peter Simkins has established a reputation over the last forty years as one of the most original and stimulating historians of the First World War. He has made