Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes is a longstanding friend of WHO, providing features, photography and reviews. He has contributed to The Times of London and other publications. He is the author of The Liberation of Europe (pub 2016) and If War Should Come due later in 2020.

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Articles by Mark Barnes:

CONTINENTAL VERSUS REDCOAT – Review by Mark Barnes

REDCOAT

I am really stepping into the dark with this one and getting way outside my comfort zone. I don’t have anything like a decent knowledge…

Great War books round up – Review by Mark Barnes

Great War books

Great War books have been coming thick and fast and while it is true that a good many are part of a well established blueprint,…

THE EYES OF THE DESERT RATS – Review by Mark Barnes

THE EYES OF THE DESERT RATS

It doesn’t take much of an imagination to picture a dusty landing ground miles behind the front line being shocked into life in the dead…

SCAPEGOAT – Review by Mark Barnes

SCAPEGOAT

The loss of Britain’s imperial possessions in the Far East at the end of 1941 and in to the next year was nothing less than…

FIVE NEW OWNERS WORKSHOP MANUALS FROM HAYNES PUBLISHING.

I was riding my commuter train home from work one evening just before Christmas and it occurred to me I hadn’t seen anything from Haynes…

The Battle Book Of Ypres. A Reference To Military Operations In The Ypres Salient 1914 – 1918.

“Accounts of German treachery and brutality have been omitted from this book. The Briton is a clean handed and debonair fighter, his hand clasp ready…

A WEEK IN GALLIPOLI – Part 7 by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes continues his adventure with a look at sacred spots for both Turkey and Australia on the battlefield. As the Australians poured ashore at…

2014 – A YEAR IN BOOKS

Reviews Editor Mark Barnes has a delve through his bookcase for the titles which impressed him most this year. I am astonished to see that…

ARTILLERY SCOUT – Review by Mark Barnes

ARTILLERY SCOUT

I’ve read a fair number of Great War stories but this is the first one about the experiences of an American soldier to come into…

GERMAN BATTLECRUISERS OF WORLD WAR ONE

Battlecruisers

We can read a lot about Kaiser Wilhem II and his burning ambition to make Germany a first rank imperial power to match the empires…

RISE OF THE TANK – Review by Wayne Osborne

RISE OF THE TANK

This is a book about tanks in the Great War and the author highlights the need for the tank in that conflict, presenting his opinion…

PANZER III vs SOMUA S 35 – Review by Mark Barnes

PANZER III

Ok, in our bit of the world liking tanks and other weaponry is not automatically considered weird and is part of the job description as…