BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance, whose “achievement is not merely to reconstruct Admiral Raymond A. Spruance’s operational record, but to illuminate a deeper and more unsettling truth: that victory in industrial war may depend less on boldness than on restraint, less on charisma than on intellect, and less on the commander as hero than on the commander as thinker.”

368 pages Gp Capt Kevin Billings Andrew K. Blackley’s Wielding the Trident is a biography of paradox. It recounts the […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book recounting the history of a German family in the First World War, from which three sons served and died.

296 pages Mike Farquharson-Roberts PhD (Mar Hist) “Their sons, they gave, their immortality”[1] What is widely regarded as the best […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new biography of Commodore Michael Clapp, including both his role in the Falklands War and wider naval career.

240 pages Andrew Livsey Many will be aware of the intermittent tension during the Falklands War between Rear Admiral Sandy […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers Paul Beaver’s biography of Eric Brown.

544 pages Dr James Bosbotinis To say that I have been looking forward to reading Paul Beaver’s biography of Eric […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers Peter Hore’s forthcoming biography of Admiral Sir Jock Slater.