Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams is a writer and broadcaster who specialises in military history, defence and security issues. He lectures at universities, military academies and staff colleges around the world and spent 35 years as an officer in the UK Regular and Reserve Forces. His next book, 1945: Victory in the West, is due to be published by Penguin in May 2022

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the laws of war “Russian politicians and military figures behind the awful events unfolding in Ukraine will, one day, be brought to justice”

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Peter Caddick-Adams on generals killed in battle “Russian general casualties in Ukraine today are significantly higher than the Allied commitment in WW2”

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the history of neutrality “As many nations found to their cost in the 20th century, declaring neutrality and it being respected are two different matters”

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Peter Caddick-Adams on the Russia-Ukraine war “The language, tactics, and weapons hark back to the 1940s”

Soldiers disembark a landing craft with a battle on the beach beyond

How to win a 20th-century battle

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US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

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American soldiers head towards the French coast, June 1944. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Members of a British parachute regiment consult their maps during a training exercise just weeks before D-Day. Training was intensive – and dangerous. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post /Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The road to D-Day: getting ready for action

British troops learn to swim in full kit on a training course in May 1944.

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D-Day: why the training was deadlier than the assault

Russian troops hoist the red banner of the Soviet Army after Stalingrad

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Stalingrad: the crushing of the Reich

American forces advance through the Ardennes forest during the battle of the Bulge. (Photo by George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s final gamble

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One hundred years of voluntary service