Outstanding review: BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF WORLD WAR ONE by Mark Barnes
Once there was a fleet so big and so powerful the world looked on in awe at it. It was as vast as it was…
REVIEW: JOHNNY The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton by Mark Barnes
Up in Scotland there is a tumbledown grave of an old soldier and his good lady where the health and safety people have been round.…
REVIEW: BOEING B-52 STRATOFORTRESS Haynes Workshop Manual by Mark Barnes
In their last offering Haynes gave us the Vickers Wellington, a classic piece of 1930s technology from the mind of Barnes Wallis the genius we…
REVIEW: ROMMEL’S ARMY IN THE DESERT By Mark Barnes
I seem to have been more than a little marooned in the desert of late. It has become affixed in my thoughts thanks to Bryn…
REVIEW: The Lords of War by Mark Barnes
When I was a much younger me, prone to underthinking and new to so much of the history I now take for granted, I came…
REVIEW: EL ALAMEIN The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second of the Second World War by Mark Barnes
There is a lot of hyperbole about Alamein, but let’s be fair it matters to us because it was a British and Commonwealth victory that…
REVIEW: VICKERS WELLINGTON Owners’ Workshop Manual by Mark Barnes
Root around in your garage, shed or the dusty end of your book shelves and you will find a Haynes manual for a car…
REVIEW: THE LAST GREAT CAVALRYMAN by Mark Barnes
Pen & Sword were quite keen for me to review this book, well at least that is the impression they gave me because I received…
REVIEW: A GUNNER’S GREAT WAR by Mark Barnes
Clarence Percy Ahier died in 1972. He is buried in a shared unmarked grave in a St Helier suburb. He and his wife had no…
REVIEW: HIMMLER’S NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS by Mark Barnes
I’m not an especially religious man, but I do believe in an essential goodness, and I see it in a lot of people. I married…
Review: NOT ORDINARY MEN The Story of the Battle of Kohima by Mark Barnes
Feelings remain raw. If you are a regular subscriber to WHO you will have dipped into the occasional Second World War themed article on the…
REVIEW: THE ATLANTIC WALL History and Guide by Mark Barnes
If you have been anywhere along the coastline of Europe in territory which had been occupied by the Nazis you will come across the concrete…