TAKE ME TO FRANCE – Review by Mark Barnes
There is an endless debate in the UK about how so many people from here make little or no effort to learn a foreign language. …
BRITISH TANKS IN NORMANDY – Review by Mark Barnes
A belated review of a book that has been published several times hardly makes this segment of our merry saga cutting edge stuff but this…
REVIEW: The Hood Battalion, Royal Navy Division
This is, as the title says, a history of the Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division and the book is in its third run. …
TIGER, TIGER – BURNING BRIGHT – By Mark Barnes
The WHO team attended Tiger Day at the Tank Museum, Bovington, where the film stars of Fury! the unique running Tiger 131 and the classic…
THE GREAT RETREAT – Review by Mark Barnes
This being the bicentenary year of the Battle of Waterloo there is an increased interest in all things Napoleonic. There is a lot to read…
GALLIPOLI – Review by Mark Barnes
We started planning for it years ago but it wasn’t until last September that my gang of mates made it to Gallipoli. I’d read a…
WORLD WAR II: From Blitzkrieg to Hiroshima – Review by Mark Barnes
This book is re-released in time for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. It was overseen by the late Richard Holmes; the…
Books from Uniform Press: Take Me To France and The New Army in Training – By Mark Barnes
Our friends at Uniform Press have two interesting World War One related books out this spring, both of which are new editions of contemporary titles…
KAMIKAZE – Review by Mark Barnes
My daughter is studying sociology at university and it so happens that the three- year course includes a term on Japanese society during the 20th…
TANK BATTLES OF WORLD WAR I – Review by Mark Barnes
This book was published over forty years ago by Ian Allan and back then it was presented in a larger format fitting in perfectly with…
ALL ALONG THE CONTROL TOWER – Review by Mark Barnes
The Barten brothers are quite rightly noted for their automotive passions expressed in a series of genuinely lovely books of monochrome nostalgia. I repeat, this…
THE ART OF WAR VISUALISED – Review by Mark Barnes
Some things arrive out of the blue and others are off the wall. This book by Jessica Hagy is, at first glance, the best of…