Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, a brilliant soldier; intelligent, brave, compassionate, egotistical, and arrogant. And yet for all his military genius, Rommel was also naive, a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis, dazzled by a Fuhrer whose success blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich. Yet on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil...

Rather than vilify Haig as a donkey who sent lions to the slaughter, this book demonstrates that Haig was very much the product of late Victorian Britain and its army. It looks at his early life and army career as well as covering the First World War and Haig's work on behalf of ex-servicemen's organizations.

In 2011 the National Army Museum conducted a poll to decide who merited the title of 'Britain's Greatest General'. In the end two men shared the honour. One, predictably, was the Duke of Wellington. The other was Bill Slim. Had he been alive, Slim would have been surprised, for he was the most modest of men - a rare quality among generals. Of all the plaudits heaped on him during his life, the one he valued most was the epithet by which he was affectionately...

Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names. Drawing on rich new sources from the recently-opened Soviet archives, Geoffrey Roberts has fashioned the definitive, first full-scale biography of this seminal 20th-century figure.

Henry Wilson served as a senior military planner before and during the First World War. This biography offers a reassessment of his life, placing him firmly in the context of his times & revealing the many complexities of a controversially 'political' soldier.

This text delves into the secrets of Monty's last and greatest campaign. Conscious of both his own prestige and that of his country, he turned his army's intended flanking role into a race against the Russians for the key ports of Hamburg and Bremen.