BELSEN – Review by Phil Hodges
The name Belsen is synonymous with a vision of hell. We automatically think of the pictures we’ve seen of the twisted bodies being thrown unceremoniously…
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY – Review by Nate Sullivan
On the night of December 29, 1940, at the very same moment the Luftwaffe was raining down bombs over London, American President Franklin Roosevelt addressed…
THE KAISER’S PIRATES – Review by Mark Barnes
Unlike her long established rival, at the start of hostilities the German navy was a young arm short on traditions and heritage. The Kaiser, looking…
THE MEN WHO GAVE US WINGS – Review by John Henry Phillips
A few weeks ago I was handed a book to review on the life and exploits of Australia’s most successful flying ace, Robert A. Little,…
COMMANDO DESPATCH RIDER – Review by Phil Hodges
WW2 memoirs come thick and fast these days. There’s everything from the D-Day hero who parachuted into Normandy fighting his way through an enemy held town…
NAPOLEON ON CAMPAIGN – Review by Mark Barnes
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…
VANGUARD OF THE CRUSADE – The 101st Airborne Division in World War II – Review by 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
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
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
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
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
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…