REVIEW: PORTRAIT OF A BOMBER PILOT by Mark Barnes
English Electric built a lot of Halifax bombers. Jack Wetherly flew one to Berlin in 1943 and didn’t come back. It was his second tour.…
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…