WORLD WAR I IN CARTOONS – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
I’ve always been a big lover of cartoons and, indeed, there was a time when I nearly got myself a career drawing for a newspaper,…
THE GREAT WAR 100: Review by Mark Barnes
When I first heard about this book I said to myself well, that’s different! It most certainly is. We last saw Scott Addington with his…
UNKNOWN WARRIOR – JHP: Review by John Henry Phillips
The concept of aeroplanes being used in a war as early as World War One has always fascinated me. Although, this interest did not quite…
BRITISH AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS: Review by Mark Barnes
Sticking to my tried and tested formula of nostalgic whimsy, I could wax lyrical about the glory days of the aviation industry in the UK…
BAPTISM OF FIRE: Review by Mark Barnes
During the early spring of 1939 the tragic consequences of Appeasement began to bear fruit. Following the Nazi dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian regime led…
Digging the Trenches: Review by Phil
With the hundredth anniversary of WW1 looming in the next few weeks the books on the subject are coming in thick and fast, and let…
IMAGES FROM THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY – Review by Mark Barnes
A work colleague of mine called me over to look at a page from the Times Literary Supplement, a worthy title I work on every…
Racketeers of Europe: Review by Mark Barnes
It is mid-1930s Europe and we have a compilation of the pre-war newspaper articles by William Archer Sholto Douglas, an American fire-eating journalist in the…
Drone Warfare: Review by Phil
Drone warfare. At first I thought it sounded like an apt title for this book. However, the more I read the more I became fascinated and…
Enemy on the Euphrates: Review by Mark Barnes
Turn on the TV news any time now and you will see that unhappy land of Iraq seized in another bout of murderous sectarian turmoil.…
ISANDLWANA – How the Zulus Humbled the British Empire – Review by Mark Barnes
I make no excuses for loving the film Zulu. I know it isn’t entirely accurate and, as the author of this book tells us, has…
AERODROMES OF FIGHTER COMMAND THEN AND NOW – Review by Mark Barnes
The airport to the north of my town used to be in the doldrums. Regular services had dropped off and the only thing appearing…