WWI | War History

Dragon Sculpture Planned to Top WWI Welsh Memorial in Flanders

Dragons symbolize sovereignty in Welsh culture. It is no wonder why a Welsh-based organization is aiming at making a marker in the likeness of this mighty creature…

Max Hastings Re-tells WWI in His New Book

One of Britain’s celebrated war historians, Max Hastings, writes a fascinating masterpiece that retells the human stories behind the horrors of World War I –…

War Hero Protests, Gives Medals Away

‘No one seems to care these days, older people are just treated like a bit of rubbish. The country is not as we all hoped. It…

THE GREAT WAR, Peter Hart – review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

THE GREAT WAR By Peter Hart Published by Profile Books ISBN: 978 1 84668 246 9 Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online There…

ROYAL FLYING CORPS By Alistair Smith – Reviewed by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

ROYAL FLYING CORPS By Alistair Smith Published by Pen & Sword ISBN 978 1 84884: 889 4 Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online…

OF THOSE WE LOVED, A Great War Narrative Remembered and Illustrated – Review by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

OF THOSE WE LOVED A Great War Narrative Remembered and Illustrated By IL ‘Dick’ Read Published by Pen & Sword ISBN: 978 1 78159 101…

REVIEW: THE DEFENCE OF THE DARDANELLES by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

Standing out as one to watch for the bookies in the WHO What’s Not to Like championship stakes is this little gem from Michael Forrest.…

REVIEW: THE FIRST BLITZ The German Air Campaign Against Britain 1917-1918 by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

Well, how confusing is this? In the one corner we have the well established First Blitz by Neil Hanson which looks at the German bombing…

REVIEW: WORLD WAR ONE: A LAYMAN’S GUIDE by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

The village of Beaumont Hamel is a nice enough place. Take a walk out of it and along the road that leads you to the…

REVIEW: SEA KILLERS IN DISGUISE by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

You’re a movie producer and you’re sitting in your palatial Hollywood office and you’ve just seen War Horse and you managed to understand some of…

Outstanding review: BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF WORLD WAR ONE by Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes

Once there was a fleet so big and so powerful the world looked on in awe at it. It was as vast as it was…

Douglas Haig – butcher or hero? By Rupert Colley

Douglas Haig, Britain’s First World War commander-in-chief from December 1915 to the end of the war, is remembered as the archetypal ‘donkey’ leading ‘lions’ to…