Trevor Royle, Author St. Martin's Press $55 (596p) ISBN 978-0-312-23079-1
In the century between Napoleon and WWI, only one major international war was fought among the European powers. Faintly understood, the Crimean War--which pitted Britain and France with the Ottoman Empire against Russia--was the war that made...
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Trevor Royle, Author John Murray Publishers $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7195-5686-9
Combining historical narrative with interviews of Brits and Indians who lived through the final days of Britain's rule of India, Royle--an English historian--strives to create a balanced portrait, though his informative yet dry narrative ends up...
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Trevor Royle. Pegasus, $28.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-68177-236-3
British military historian Royle (Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854–1856) explores how the 1746 Battle of Culloden destroyed Bonnie Prince Charlie’s dreams of a Stuart restoration but prepared the British army for subsequent successes in...
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Trevor Royle, intro. by Gen. Wesley Clark. Palgrave Macmillan, $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-230-61489-5
Royle, an editor at The Sunday Herald, curiously chose Bernard Law Montgomery for Palgrave's World Generals series. Monty had two big successes: he took over a disheartened British Eighth army in North Africa, binged them up—one of Montgomery's...
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