The Battle of Little Bighorn: The site of Little Bighorn has been researched like no other American battlefield. Using the results of this recent scientific research, the book will peel away the myths about Little Bighorn, revealing that there was no 'last stand' just as there were few bows, arrows or tomahawks.
The Battle of Hastings: We all know what happened in 1066 - or do we? Only one contemporary account, of a few lines, survives about the Battle of Hastings. Had Harold's army really marched from Stamford Bridge? Was Harold killed by an arrow through the eye? And where did the battle take place? Almost all our knowledge of 1066 rests in myth and illusion.
The Battle of Agincourt: Agincourt was a triumph of the English long bow - 'the machine gun of the Middle Ages' - over French knightly military tactics. But it was seventy years since the English under the black Prince had devastated the cream of the French aristocracy at Crecy. Had the French really learned nothing in the intervening years?
The Spanish Armada: It's almost legendary. The story of the Spanish Armada is a wonderful one. English heroism and Spanish incompetence plus bad weather have always been blamed for the Armada's failure. Now marine archaeology and recently discovered Spanish documentation are casting the reasons for the Armada's failure in new light.
Waterloo: In history Waterloo has always been told as the great triumph of Britain's greatest general, Wellington, and the victory of British fire power over the French. But new discoveries suggest a quite different story...
The Charge of the Light Brigade: The Charge of the Light Brigade lives on in history as one of the most pointless andexpensive in terms of loss of life actions in history. The book will put it in its proper context of just one of three actions that took place that day and reveal that pointless and unsuccessful as it was, fewer than a quarter of the 'Six Hundred' actually died; and Battlefield Detectives reveals what were the real killers that day.
Gallipoli: The most public disaster of the Allied campaign in WWI. The book will investigate why - at the height of the campaign - both sides were losing many more men to disease than to enemy fire, and why the leadership did not take this into account. And the true story of the 12th Norfold, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances on 12 August.
The Battle of Hastings: We all know what happened in 1066 - or do we? Only one contemporary account, of a few lines, survives about the Battle of Hastings. Had Harold's army really marched from Stamford Bridge? Was Harold killed by an arrow through the eye? And where did the battle take place? Almost all our knowledge of 1066 rests in myth and illusion.
The Battle of Agincourt: Agincourt was a triumph of the English long bow - 'the machine gun of the Middle Ages' - over French knightly military tactics. But it was seventy years since the English under the black Prince had devastated the cream of the French aristocracy at Crecy. Had the French really learned nothing in the intervening years?
The Spanish Armada: It's almost legendary. The story of the Spanish Armada is a wonderful one. English heroism and Spanish incompetence plus bad weather have always been blamed for the Armada's failure. Now marine archaeology and recently discovered Spanish documentation are casting the reasons for the Armada's failure in new light.
Waterloo: In history Waterloo has always been told as the great triumph of Britain's greatest general, Wellington, and the victory of British fire power over the French. But new discoveries suggest a quite different story...
The Charge of the Light Brigade: The Charge of the Light Brigade lives on in history as one of the most pointless andexpensive in terms of loss of life actions in history. The book will put it in its proper context of just one of three actions that took place that day and reveal that pointless and unsuccessful as it was, fewer than a quarter of the 'Six Hundred' actually died; and Battlefield Detectives reveals what were the real killers that day.
Gallipoli: The most public disaster of the Allied campaign in WWI. The book will investigate why - at the height of the campaign - both sides were losing many more men to disease than to enemy fire, and why the leadership did not take this into account. And the true story of the 12th Norfold, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances on 12 August.
