‘People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.’ (George Orwell). Peace is defined by war, so history in some ways is always military history – and The History Press provides some of the best analysis from the best authors of all areas and eras of human conflict. We boast, for example, the best Napoleonic library of any publisher. Highlights for 2010 include John Sweetman’s Cavalry of the Clouds: Air War over Europe 1914–1918 and on the 70th anniversary of the disaster, Dunkirk 1940: Whereabouts Unknown by Tim Lynch. Incidentally, we always check our historical facts – the famous Orwell quote is quite false. What he actually wrote was ‘Those who “abjure” violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.’