The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought from Gibraltar an

The essays in this volume set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole.

The population of Britain was mobilized to support the war effort on a scale unseen in any other Western democracy – or in Nazi Germany. They endured long wor

Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashi

The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth f