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:

‘A VERY FINE COMMANDER’ THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SIR HORATIUS MURRAY GCB KBE DSO

A career soldier, Nap Murray spent his working life with the Colours and eventually reached the rank of full general during his service with NATO.…

THE GERMAN 88 The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War.

This could be the easiest review I will ever write. I’m not going to waste your time thinking up any clever wordy stuff to make…

GERMAN CAPITAL SHIPS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

You wouldn’t be reading this without the power of the internet and we have all seen what a wonderful tool it can be.  I work…

THE NAZIS’ NUREMBERG RALLIES

If you need an example of the wide range of titles published by Pen & Sword you have to look no further than this curio…

TIGERS IN NORMANDY

I’m sure William Blake’s immortal lines have been attached to the Tiger tank before. It was published in 1794 and knowing his revulsion of the…

ASSAULT ON NORMANDY SWORD BEACH

I’ve been to Normandy four times and have always had memorable adventures on the history trail. The great omission has been a close look to…

IMAGES OF WAR THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Reading this book illustrates just how little I know about the Russian Revolution, let alone the Civil War, so I won’t begin to con you…

U-48 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL U-BOAT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

My daily commute into the capital allows me time to read plenty of books as long as I am able to zone out from the…

The Legendary Pathfinder Mosquito Navigator Tom Parry Evans

Tommy Broom was a pre-war erk who left Somerset for a life of adventure in far off places in the British Empire.  His time as…

HELL HAWKS!

HELL HAWKS! The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler’s Wehrmacht.There is no question that it was one hell of a hard hitting…

WALKING THE WESTERN FRONT YPRES Slaughter of the Innocents 1914-15

If you take the Menin Road from Ypres towards Hooge you pass the fields on the left hand side where my great uncle Leslie lived…

THEY SHALL NOT PASS-The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918

I read a lot of books and it’s fair to say that a lot of the stuff that passes my eyes leaves something to be…