Featured battle : Crécy

Part of The Hundred Years war

Date : 26 August 1346

French Knights under Philip VII were beaten by the combined Anglo-Gascon Knights and Men-at-Arms under Edward III and his son Edward the Black Prince. Good example of effective and coordinated use of Knights, Men-at-Arms and Pikemen, Longbowmen against the old-style Chivalric aristocracy who considered non-noble combatants unworthy of battle.

The Decline of Empires in South Asia

Heather A Campbell
This book covers quite a niche subject in the history of what became known as "The Great Game" between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in South Asia. It focuses on the problems of imperial control over primarily Afghanistan in the years 1919-1923, and how the conflicts between the Indian government, the India Office, and the Foreign Office in London. It uses as a comparison the approaches taken during those same years in Persia, and while it covers a number of viewpoints, it largely revolves around Lord Curzon, his strong personality, and the mistakes it argues that he made because of it.
I found this book to be fascinating, and extremely thoroughly researched (the notes pages and bibliography are approximately one third of the book) but it is really quite academic and probably not for a casual reader.
Pen & Sword Military, 2022