Skip to content
The History Herald

The History Herald

Great History Articles

  • History Book Reviews
  • History DVD Reviews
  • Articles
    • American History
      • Civil War, American Indian Wars, Pioneers (1801-1900)
    • British & Irish History
      • Anglo-Saxon (500-1000)
      • Crimean War
      • Early Modern (1501-1700)
      • Falklands War
      • Irish History
      • Norman and Medieval (1001-1500)
      • Post-war Period (1946-Present)
      • The Wars of the Roses
    • European History
      • Cold War History
      • Hundred Years’ War
    • Ancient History & Civilisation
      • Hannibal and the Punic Wars
    • Maritime History
      • Battleships
    • Military History
      • Wars, Battles & Campaigns
      • Weapons & Warfare
      • World War I
      • World War II
  • Places To See
    • Europe
    • UK and Ireland
  • Writers
    • Jonny Mardling
    • Bob Mardling
    • Yozan Mosig
    • Tom Byrne
    • Jim Keys
    • David Ross

Author: Robert Mitchell

History Book Reviews 

The Great War From the Air: Then and Now – Gail Ramsey

February 2, 2014June 18, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'aerial photography', 'first world war', 'great war', 'western front', ww1

No matter how hard we may try to picture in our minds the devastation wrought by years of almost continual

Read more
History Book Reviews 

Christmas in the Trenches – Alan Wakefield

February 2, 2014June 18, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'first world war', 'great war', christmas, wwi

It is perhaps some measure of our humanity that the brief, partial, and entirely unauthorised, Christmas Truce of 1914, has

Read more
History Book Reviews 

The Spy Who Loved – Clare Mulley

May 21, 2013June 18, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'Christine Granville', 'Francis Cammaerts', 'history book review', 'Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek', 'Secret Intelligence Service', 'special operations executive', SOE

Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek was born into a wealthy Polish Jewish family in Warsaw. The economic collapse of the 1920s

Read more
History Book Reviews 

Air Battle For Arnhem – Alan Cooper

March 25, 2013June 17, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'Air Despatchers', 'Combined Airborne Headquarters', 'operation market garden', arnhem

This latest book by Alan Cooper tells the story of the air operation in support of Operation Market-Garden. The operation

Read more
History Book Reviews 

Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II – David Rigby

March 25, 2013June 17, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'alan brooke', 'arcadia conference', 'charles portal', 'Combined Chiefs of Staff', 'dudley pound', 'history book review', 'world war ii', churchill, roosevelt, wwii

This book is an analysis of the men that ran the war. Though Churchill and Roosevelt provided the general direction

Read more
History Book Reviews 

The Hunters and the Hunted – Byran Perrett

January 28, 2013June 17, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'history book review', 'wwi naval battles', emden, karlsruhe, sydney

At the start of the First World War the Imperial German Navy had a number of surface warships deployed around

Read more
History Book Reviews 

Bomber Command: Failed to Return II – Steve Bond, Steve Darlow, Linzee Druce, Sean Feast, Julian Evan-Hart and Andrew MacDonald

January 28, 2013June 17, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'bomber command', 'history book review', wwii

This, the second in the series about Bomber Command individuals and crews that failed to return from operations, follows the

Read more

Categories

  • Articles
    • American History
      • Civil War, American Indian Wars, Pioneers (1801-1900)
    • Ancient History & Civilisation
      • Hannibal and the Punic Wars
    • British & Irish History
      • Anglo-Saxon (500-1000)
      • Crimean War
      • Early Modern (1501-1700)
      • Falklands War
      • Irish History
      • Norman and Medieval (1001-1500)
      • Post-war Period (1946-Present)
      • The Wars of the Roses
    • European History
      • Cold War History
      • Hundred Years' War
    • Maritime History
      • Battleships
    • Military History
      • Wars, Battles & Campaigns
      • Weapons & Warfare
      • World War I
      • World War II
  • History Book Reviews
  • History DVD Reviews
  • Places To See
    • Europe
    • UK and Ireland
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms Of Use
  • Contact Us
Copyright © 2021 The History Herald. All rights reserved.