The White Lady: the story of two key British secret service networks behind German lines
Helen Fry presents a major new history of the two most important British secret service networks in WWI and WWII. Using recently declassified information, she gives a compelling account of the brave agents who risked their lives to smuggle intelligence out of occupied Belgium.
Helen Fry
Yale University Press, hbk, 304pp (£20)
ISBN 978-0300275117
Britain’s Wilderness Frontier: North American borderlands 1748-1775
How do empires manage their distant borderlands? John Oliphant draws on a variety of sources to explore how British attempts to restrict settlement and protect Native American lands was a significant cause of the American Revolution, particularly in the southern colonies.
John Oliphant
Amberley Publishing, hbk, 288pp (£22.99)
ISBN 978-1398121171
Churchill’s Forgotten Generals: victors in Burma
The crucial roles of Generals Auchinleck, Slim, and Savory in the campaigns in North-east India and Burma (Myanmar) in WWII have often been overlooked. Churchill’s Forgotten Generals highlights how their leadership helped forge the Indian Army into a force capable of victory.
War Classics – Wellington in the Peninsula