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:

LUFTWAFFE BOMBERS B of B – Review by Mark Barnes

LUFTWAFFE BOMBERS

Here we are again for the first time in a while with one of the Images of War series I have a lot of time…

A WEEK IN GALLIPOLI – Part 6 – By Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes relives his climb from Anzac to Lone Pine via Plugge’s Plateau Within two hours of getting ashore on the 25th of April the…

POINTBLANK DIRECTIVE – Review by Mark Barnes

POINTBLANK DIRECTIVE

We’ve been plugging away at this books lark for a while now and I hope you’ll stick with us. You will note the team has…

BILLY BISHOP – Review by Mark Barnes

BILLY BISHOP

In the annals of the Great War aces Billy Bishop is up there as number two after the Red Baron with seventy-two victories. But almost…

AMX-30 – Review by Mark Barnes

AMX-30

Produced in Poland and aimed at the modeller this book comes from an extensive series of soft-backed A4 format bargains offering a good selection of…

REPORTING THE GREAT WAR – Review by Jim Grundy

THE GREAT WAR

A Missed Opportunity A book telling how the Great War was reported and how life changed for everyone, at home and in khaki, would be…

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WW2 WEAPONS – Review by Mark Barnes

WW2 WEAPONS

I don’t watch TV much beyond the evening news bulletin and a bit of soccer. My response to the deprivations of the small screen is…

ABOVE AND BEYOND – Review by Mark Barnes

above and beyond

How many times have you heard the old saying the Lord moves in mysterious ways? It has been used to explain all manner of situations…

FURY – Reviewed by Mark Barnes

Cast your weary minds back to the summer of 2013. I was sitting with a colleague in the press office at the War & Peace…

Snow and Steel – Review by Mark Barnes

snow and steel

There is a long running radio show on the BBC called Desert Island Discs, the premise being that the invited celebrity will pick a number…

FOR THE FALLEN – Review by Mark Barnes

FOR THE FALLEN

We are inching close to Armistice Day and the poppies will soon be on sale again. Like tens of thousands of others I wear mine…

A WEEK IN GALLIPOLI – Part 5 By Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes arrives at Anzac Cove. There is little doubt that Anzac is the place most people identify with the Gallipoli campaign. Many accounts suggest…