Peter Hart

The Somme: these words conjure the image of war rigidly fought by traditional means even when catastrophe clearly loomed.....

World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality....

Chain of Fire examines the terrible desert wars using the testimonies of the men who fought there.

The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign....

The endgame of World War I seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice....

How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western Front....

This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable....

This epic account of the events of 1918 is the first major reappraisal of the end of the war for more than 20 years....

The Somme has remained a byword for the futility of war ever since....

The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground....

The Great War was the first truly global conflict and it changed the course of world history. Critically acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world....