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“Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.”

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Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.

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By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million…

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If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long…

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No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

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If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

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From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a…

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By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer…

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In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S.…

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I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.

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History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the…

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It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they…

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