Featured battle : Corinth

Part of American Civil War

Date : 03 October 1862 - 04 October 1862

Following the fight at Iuka, Price managed to withdraw his Confederates before Grant and Rosecrans could trap him. He then joined Van Dorn, and together they decided to attack the Union position at Corinth. On the first day, attacking from the north, they drove back Rosecrans' troops from their outer entrenchments to the inner defences, but by the following day their drive had suffered from heavy losses and the extreme heat. In response to a Union counter-attack they gave way. Grant's summer campaign on the Mississippi was over and he was in control of the important outposts of Memphis and Corinth, ready for a campaign on Vicksburg.

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