Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes is a longstanding friend of WHO, providing features, photography and reviews. He has contributed to The Times of London and other publications. He is the author of The Liberation of Europe (pub 2016) and If War Should Come due later in 2020.

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Articles by Mark Barnes:

Airway to the East 1918-1920

Like Pen & Sword’s autobiography of Hitler’s snapper, this is the sort of book that inspires articles in the nether regions of the Daily Mail.…

IMAGES OF WAR B-17 MEMPHIS BELLE

The press release with this book leaves us in no doubt the Memphis Belle is an all-American icon and that some claim she is in…

MOSQUITO Menacing the Reich

An admission: After I read this book I started another which I had been so looking forward to. A Great War history with fantastic photos…

IT HAD TO BE TOUGH The Origins and Training of the Commandos in World War II.

The cover illustration for this book shows the wonderful Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge in the Highlands of Scotland. My sole visit back in 1990…

STALINGRAD DAY BY DAY

It would be easy to write this one of as the sort of book you often find in one of those bargain book shops in…

SOMME SUCCESS THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS AND THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME 1916

The latest edition of the Western Front Association’s Bulletin included a discourse on Great War books by our president Professor Peter Simkins. In it he…

DEEDS OF HEROES The Story of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1854-1993

I occasionally travel to work with a colleague, who, by coincidence, reviews albums for a rock music website. While I might often find common ground…

THE COMPLETE GEORGE CROSS

In the sticky heat of an October day, I found myself in the Commonwealth cemetery in Stanley on Hong Kong Island.  There is much to…

OPERATION MARKET GARDEN – Hell’s Highway

The BHTV team returns with a further episode of the Market Garden saga with an account of the events involving the 101st Airborne Division and…

THE MARCH ON PARIS The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914

Kaiser Bill is feeling ill, The Crown Prince, he’s gone barmy. We don’t give a f*ck for old von Kluck, And all his bleedin’ army.…

THE GREAT WAR EXPLAINED.

Everything is in the title. It does exactly what it says on the tin.  This excellent book does not set out to be encyclopaedic, nor…

UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES OF THE COLD WAR.

There is a huge book produced by English Heritage called Cold War: Building For Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989. You could probably shelter under it; such is…