Product Description: In this controversial study, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty wartime leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He considers the extraordinary difficulties they faced, and analyses how they performed and what they achieved...read more

Product Description: Geoff Bridger’s Great War Handbook answers many of the basic questions newcomers ask when confronted by this enormous and challenging subject – not only what happened and why, but what was the Great War like for ordinary soldiers who were caught up in it...read more

Product Description: In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how the difficulties they faced and the political and strategic backgrounds of their days and analyses how they performed and what they achieved...read more

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Product Description: In his classic text on the First World War, distinguished military historian Correlli Barnett vividly illuminates the complex story of the war that left millions dead and changed the face of the Europe forever. Drawing on accounts of ordinary soldiers as well as primary sources, Correlli Barnett tells the story of the war from the initial causes through the long, bitter years of stalemate on the Western Front, to the compromise peace in 1918...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of intimate portraits of the five men who lead the British Army through the battles of the Desert Campaign in 1940-1943. Richard O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Neil Ritchie, Claude Auchinleck, and Field Marshall Montgomery, are considered, and a comprehensive account of the Desert Campaign is provided...read more

Product Description: "The Verdict of Peace" evokes the dying embers of Britain's 20th-century influence. Between the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 and the Suez debacle of 1956, Great Britain squandered every opportunity to re-invent herself as an industrial nation...read more

Product Description: Four of the most important World War I commanders-in-chief helped determine its outcome--and, by extension, the course of the 20th century. Here are the stories of Colonel-General von Molke, who attempted to defeat France in a mere 6 weeks; Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, who struggled unsuccessfully to crush the German High Sea Fleet; General Pétain, whose inaction led the French troops to mutiny; and General Ludendorff, who mounted a titanic German offensive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A complete history of the British Army Provides all the details about the way the Army is run that are impossible to find elsewhere Packed full of maps, photos and line drawings Correlli Barnett is renowned for making military history both exciting and readable

Product Description: Born in Corsica, Bonaparte was never truly a Frenchman. This study of Napoleon Bonaparte dispels several of the myths about the politician and commander in his field.

A study of the Royal Navy's operations and strategy throughout World War II

Examines the economic and political causes of Great Britain's decline as a world power and discusses Britain's failure as an advanced technological society

The first book in the acclaimed Pride & Fall sequence on British power in the 20th century This book explains the decay of British power bewtween 1918 and 1940 and its final collapse between 1940 and 1945. Some have sought to expalin this ineptitude, particularly between the two world wars, by citing the tremendous costs of the First World War in both treasure and manpower. Not so, says Corelli Barnett, who ruthlessly identifies the root causes which reduced Britain eventually to a satellite of the USA. Ranging over 100 years, drawing together arguments from many spheres - education and industry, diplomatic and imperial history, Cabinet papers and the Press - it is as fascinating to read as it is significant.

An eminent military historian asserts that Bonaparte's strengths, speed, and aggressiveness were eventually undermined by his lack of organization and only the arrival of reinforcements saved him from repeated disasters