The War Room
Dr Robert Lyman MBEIdeas and commentary on historical matters and subjects associated with modern international relations, sometimes associated with my writing, and sometimes not!
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Asia's long war against imperial Japan
A new book on the war against Japan, reviewed here in the excellent Engelsberg Ideas, is depressingly off-the-mark. Its not all bad, but isn’t good enough for me to recommend its purchase.
There are much better books! Two I would unreserve...
Partisanship and parochialism
Nigel Biggar, courtesy of the Buckingham History Festival
The ability to debate in good faith, using bona fide sources and logical argument is a sine qua non of historical academia. Well, it used to be. Some of my readers will know of the...
Fowle's War
Tony Fowle with his pipe, which he smoked from the age of 18
I’ve just read the delightful military biography of Colonel Tony Fowle MC, covering his years of military service between joining up in 1939 and the Korean War in 1951, based on...
Clement Attlee: A Fine Role Model
In writing our book on Korea two years back General Lord Dannatt and I were much taken by the principled leadership of Clement Attlee, the man who led the Labour Party to victory in the 1945 General Election, and who insisted that Bill Slim...
The Rise of Nazism Explained
Many people have attempted to explain the rise of Nazism in Germany. I did so in my 2018 book Under a Darkening Sky, which was published in the UK under the title The Rise of the Third Reich. In this book I examined the views of the ‘little...
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I was once a soldier. My five degrees are in history, international affairs, war studies, military technology and the operational art of General Bill Slim, the latter being my PhD. www.robertlyman.com.
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