The following blog is written by Mark Saliger, the author of The First Bridge Too Far about one of the most significant British airborne battles of World War Two. The book will be released in[…]

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Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy was one of the most famous army chaplains of the First World War, and his wartime experiences shaped his ministry and writing in the inter war years. The following edited extract is[…]

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Last week China’s National People’s Congress approved to abolish presidential term limits, making it possible for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. Western political commentators, almost all unanimously critical of this move, cited[…]

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The following edited extract is taken from ‘On Her Majesty’s Nuclear Service‘ by Eric Thompson, and will be published in February.   The submarine I was serving in, Oracle, had some severe biological problems. Her[…]

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The below review is written by Tom Bonnington and does not represent the views of Casemate Publishers.   Darkest Hour stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and chronicles what he did during the first few[…]

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If you have a large family to cook for at Christmas, take solace that you don’t have to literally feed an army. For U.S. Army cooks in World War One the task of cooking for[…]

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Operation Frantic was a long-range bombing campaign that took place in the latter stages of the Second World War. In order for the plan to work, the planes needed to land in Soviet airfields after[…]

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The following article is written by Commodore Eric Thompson. He received a scholarship to Dartmouth, volunteered for submarines and thirty-seven years later retired as Commodore of Britain’s principal nuclear submarine base at Faslane. His memoir[…]

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Benjamin Lai is an expert on the modern Chinese military and author of The Dragon’s Teeth. In this blog, he explains how China are using the arms trade to exert influence in world affairs and[…]

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