ABSTRACT
The signs are very different. On one hand, ‘drums and trumpets’ history flourishes; indeed, the British journal Publishing News, in its issue of 24 January 2003, referred to ‘the rapidly growing market for military history’. The situation is no different in the USA, Spain or in Japan, where, if it is defined to include biographies of famous samurai, it accounts for a large percentage of the history sections of bookstores. Elsewhere, the situation is the same. Le Figaro littéraire of 16 November 2000 noted the growth in interest in France in operational military history.
