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…
MAJOR & MRS HOLT’S BATTLEFIELD GUIDE TO YPRES SALIENT & PASSCHENDAELE – Review by Phil Hodges
What better way to review a book than on an actual road trip of the area? Excellent idea! Well, actually It proved to be tougher…
A WOMAN LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – Review by Phil Hodges
Quaint. That’s how I’d describe this book. It’s like Miss Marple’s memoirs and should come complete with a cream tea, a copy of The Times…
GERMAN BATTLECRUISERS OF WORLD WAR ONE
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…
CAEN CONTROVERSY – Review by Chris Buckham
What is the Caen Controversy? In a nutshell, this centre’s upon a school of thought that suggests that the 3rd Br InfDiv, tasked with the…
RISE OF THE TANK – Review by Wayne Osborne
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
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…
A WELCH CALYPSO – Review by Mark Barnes
One of the great strengths of Helion is a willingness to publish books like this one. There is no combat or violence and the book…
GHOSTS OF THE ETO – Review by Mark Barnes
A good while ago I reviewed Rick Stroud’s wonderful The Phantom Army of Alamein. Still one of my favourite military history books it is crammed…
STILWELL AND THE CHINDITS – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we are again with another instalment of the Images of War series from Pen & Sword. This time round we find ourselves in the…
A WOOD CALLED BOURLON – Review by Wayne Osborne
This is another re-published work. William Moore’s book about Bourlon Wood first hit the shelves in 1988 and it seeks to discuss the so-called ‘cover-up’…
ONE HELL OF A WAR – Review by Phil Hodges
So you want to write a book about World War 2 about a specific unit or Regiment? In this case you want to write about…