LIBERTY ROADS – Review by Mark Barnes
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…