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NAPOLEON ON CAMPAIGN – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
NAPOLEON

When he strode down the gangplank of HMS Hecla at Balaclava on 8th March 1854, Roger Fenton was in the vanguard of an arts movement…

Friendships that last a lifetime

Friendships

Retired barber describes Alaskan-based service with armored regiment By Jeremy P. Amick Reunions can be a joyous occasion— looking back on the good times that…

VANGUARD OF THE CRUSADE – The 101st Airborne Division in World War II – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

I said some time ago that if the 101st Airborne Division were a brand they would be Apple. If that is the case then surely…

ARRIVAL OF EAGLES – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
ARRIVAL OF EAGLES

I seem to be receiving a bumper crop of aviation books at the present time and this latest effort from Andy Saunders is absolutely top-drawer…

ISANDLWANA ZULU BATTLEFIELD – Review by Phil Hodges

Phil Hodges
ISANDLWANA

Isandlwana. For me it conjures up images of carnage, panic and total and absolute fear.As a child I remember watching the film Zulu with my…

DOVER’S WESTERN HEIGHTS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR – Review by Phil Hodges

Phil Hodges
WESTERN HEIGHTS

To find a book where the author has total and absolute knowledge of the subject is quite rare. To find an author whose passion almost…

HAYNES FAIREY SWORDFISH – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
SWORDFISH

Craig, if you’re reading this you may remember the day in 1964 when I sat on your model of a Fairey Swordfish at your mum’s…

BLOODY RED TABS – Review by Chris Buckham

Mark Barnes
RED TABS

Popular culture likes to paint the senior officers of the First World War as petrified fossils of an earlier style of warfare unable to adjust…

MEMOIRS OF A STUKA PILOT – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
STUKA PILOT

Stuka operations have always fascinated me, so I was very pleased to read this book by the veteran airman Helmut Mahlke. The author takes us…

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC – Review by John Henry Phillips

Mark Barnes
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC

This book was first published in 1961, making it, inrecent years, a frequent sight at auctions and boot fairs. That much was always inevitable. However,…

Our Land at War – Review by Phil Hodges

Phil Hodges
Land at War

I turned forty last month, hardly the time for a walking stick and a pipe but I do have a favourite chair and cushion in…

Armoured Warfare and Hitler’s Allies – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
Armoured Warfare

This fascinating book in the Images of  describes the decidedly mixed fortunes of the states siding, willingly or otherwise, with the Nazis to fight against…