Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016 Page 32 By Robin Prior British Vickers machine gun crew, The Battle...

Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016 Page 40 Review by Chris Sterling Simon Read, Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent, Da Capo Press, 2015, 309 pages, $2699 ISBN 978-0306823817...

Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016 Page 41 Review by Chris Sterling Leon Bennett, Churchill’s War Against the Zeppelin 1914–18: Men, Machines and Tactics, Helion, 2015, 406 pages, $5995 ISBN 978-1909982840...

Finest Hour 172, Spring 2016 Page 46 Review by Kevin D McCranie Jonathan Dimbleby, The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War, Viking, 2015, 560 pages, £17 ISBN 978-0241186602...

Finest Hour 173, Summer 2016 Page 38 Roger Hermiston, All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s  Great Coalition, 1940–45,  Aurum Press, 406 pages, £20 ISBN 978–1781313312 Review by John Campbell John Campbell’s books include major biographies of F...

Finest Hour 174, Autumn 2016 Page 34 By Andrew Roberts Andrew Roberts is the author of many books, including, most recently, the major new biography Napoleon His next book will be a full-scale biography...

We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.

… I doubt whether anyone feels greater sorrow or pain than those who are responsible for the general conduct of our affairs.

A deep crease in the ground - a dry watercourse, a khor - appeared where all had seemed smooth, level plain; and from it there sprang, with the suddenness of a pantomime effect and a high-pitched yell, a dense white mass of men nearly as long as our front and about twelve deep. A score of horsemen and a dozen bright flags rose as if by magic from the earth.