Lloyd Clark

Utterly fascinating. - James Holland First-class... The intense rivalry of Monty and Patton is one of the great stories of the war, and has never been told better. - Andrew Roberts Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognised and successful military leaders of the twentieth...

5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'. It was also one of the most bloody, characterised by hideous excess and outrageous atrocities. The battle concluded with Germany...

The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces provided the Fuhrer with a swift, efficient and decisive military victory over the Allied forces. In achieving in just...