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LIBERTY ROADS – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
LIBERTY ROADS

Warning! Don’t buy this book on the assumption it has lots of fantastic photographs – it has. Don’t buy it on the breezy notion you…

LEAD SHOT – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne

Wayne Osborne
LEAD SHOT

“The core of this book is an intensive analysis of 1,800 projectiles that were fired in practice in a Northamptonshire deer park during the English…

Forts And Fortifications – Review by Phil Hodges

Phil Hodges
forts and fortifications

Like the title suggests, this wasn’t a book to be read in your lunch break This was to be no quick read but was specialist…

WORLDS GREATEST TANKS – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
WORLDS GREATEST TANKS

This is a brave book if ever there was one. How often have you been challenged to nominate a greatest this or that by your…

NORMANDY BATTLEFIELDS – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
NORMANDY BATTLEFIELDS

I was very keen to see this book when it appeared in the bumph Casemate routinely send to me and I am not disappointed. The…

WW1 ATLAS – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
WW1 ATLAS

This large-scale book has the essence of the look of one produced under the banner of The Times newspaper, but don’t be fooled into thinking…

WW1 Fighter Aces – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
WW1 Fighter Aces

In a corner of a foreign field just north of Ypres rests a young man named Edwin Benbow. He is no relation to me and…

CENTRAL POWERS – RUSSIAN FRONT 14-18 – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
RUSSIAN FRONT

A lot of the focus of the centenary of the Great War in recent weeks has been on the Western Front, the cockpit of the…

HMS WARSPITE – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
HMS WARSPITE

You know how it is. After days of sunshine there is a rare public holiday to enjoy and when the appointed twenty-four hours is here…

OPERATION HURRICANE – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
OPERATION HURRICANE

Operation Hurricane was conceived as a mission to deal with as yet insufficiently damaged German industrial cities. It fitted in perfectly with Arthur Harris’ strategy…

PROPAGANDA KOMPANIEN – Reviewed by Phil Hodges

Phil Hodges

Gobsmacked. That’s how Mark at WHO HQ felt when I finally sent him this review! It was months in the making and as Mark would…

IAN FLEMING AND POSTMASTER – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes
IAN FLEMING

The ribbon of land behind Omaha Beach is now sacred soil, not just in the United States, but in the minds of anyone immersed in…