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 exploring the Italian naval campaign in the Adriatic during the First World War.

80 pages Rear Admiral Guy Liardet Cernuschi is a naval historian based in Pavia who has written many books and […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of the Sinai campaign in the First World War, to defend the Suez Canal from Ottoman/German attack.

96 pages Mike Farquharson-Roberts PhD (Mar Hist) National perspectives of the First World War can be very different. Most British […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of and analysing the battle off Samar, part of the wider Battle of Leyte Gulf, in which a powerful Japanese surface force, including the Yamato, attacked a US escort carrier task unit.

271 pages Dr James Bosbotinis The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history, with as Mark […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book providing an account of the US conquest and occupation of the Philippines at the end of the 19th century, which ‘changed the geopolitics of Asia’.