East Dorset Country Houses by Michael Hill

A superbly researched and illustrated account of country houses in eastern Dorset. It contains numerous plans, architectural drawings, information on owners’ architects and craftsmen, and covers the whole social and historical background which lead to their creation. Ranging from the medieval palace buildings at Corfe Castle, erected for King John, to minor masterpieces of the Modern Movement, such as Landfall, Poole by Oliver Hill, over 30 major buildings are described in detail. 80 others find a place in an illustrated gazetteer. The account includes important work by William Arnold, a major architect of the Jacobean period, and the 18th-century houses produced by the so-called ‘Blandford Sschool’.

The Politics of the Prussian Army: 1640-1945 by Gordon A. Craig

The Politics of the Prussian Army won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Society in 1956. Editorial Reviews Review Professor Craig has now given us a definitive work which covers the whole field in impressive detail and with an awe-inspiring apparatus of scholarship.–Michael Howard, The New Statesman and Nation A powerful study…manifestly the fruit of years of research and reflection,…an achievement in which American scholarship can take legitimate pride. Moreover, it is no mere chronicle of the past, but is pregnant with contemporary significance.– Telford Taylor, The New York Times About the Author Gordon A. Craig is at Stanford University (Emeritus). .