Peter Hart, Author . Pegasus $35 (589p) ISBN 978-1-60598-016-4
Hart is the current master of an approach to military history developed by Martin Middlebrook and Lyn Macdonald. Direct quotations from participants establish “the face of battle,” then combined with a narrative/analytical backdrop...
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Peter Hart, Author Lyons Den Publishing (KY) $15.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-879745-00-1
Though ostensibly a novel, this jeremiad against science and godlessness reads more like a protracted sermon on the nature of good and evil. In 21st-century California, a team of scientists introduces Jonah, a computer whose capacity for thought far
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Peter Hart. Oxford Univ., $34.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-119-83686-4
Hart, oral historian of Britain's Imperial War Museum, focuses on the Gallipoli campaign. This book depends more on archival work and on recent Turkish and French research than Hart's earlier collaboration with Nigel Steelin, Defeat at Gallipoli....
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Peter Hart, Author . Viking $27.95 (485p) ISBN 978-0-670-03147-4
Hart (The I.R.A. and Its Enemies
) is to be commended for his research, but his revisionist view of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins (1890–1922) is fraught with misconceptions. For example, he describes how dispirited the "G"...
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Peter Hart. Oxford Univ., $34.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-19-997627-0
Like Hart’s previous volumes on Gallipoli, The Somme, and the end of the First World War (1918), his newest is structured and defined by extensive illustrative quotations from contemporary sources. The work focuses on “the most dramatic battles and...
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