Harry Turner: 4 books

The nineteenth century saw the British army engaged in a series of conflicts around the globe. Iin almost every continent the redcoats of British soldiers seemed to be in perpetual action against enemies of the Crown. The Anglo-Zulu War, fought in southern Africa in 1879, was one of the bloodiest...

Best book on Paul Cezanne, Bar None. 'Paul Cézanne' ( either ; ; 1839–1906) was a French creator and Post-Impressionist artist whose work set the basis of the change as of the 19th-century conceiving of creative endeavour to a spic-and-span and fundamentally dissimilar society of handcraft in the...

At about 11:30 on a Sunday morning in 1815, a few shots rang out as the curtain-raiser to one of Europe's most titanic military clashes. By late afternoon, at the close of the Battle of Waterloo, nearly 40,000 men lay dead or wounded.

Until that day, the army of Napoleon Bonaparte seemed almost...

Vienna 1954, nine years after the end of World War II and the victorious allies occupy the whole of Austria.  Newly commissioned national serviceman and Fulham boy, Rory Trenchard, joins his regiment, The Hambleshires, in Vienna at the very height of the Cold War. At nineteen he finds...