Bøger af Hugh Purcell

The stories of two brothers in World War II. Christopher Burney was a secret agent tortured by the Gestapo and interned at Buchenwald concentration camp, and Roger a conscientious objector who later worked with the Free French navy, and to whom Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is dedicated.

Drawing on his political and fighting experience in the Spanish Civil War, Tom Wintringham wrote the best-seller "New Ways of War": 'a do-it-yourself guide to killing people' but also a highly subversive call for a socialist revolution. He called for 'a People's war' and the phrase stuck. This book tells his story.

The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, commander his own camel corps, he fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army.