REVIEWS: IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIPS By Lester Abbey SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU By Steve Backer
The ladies in the PR department at Pen & Sword are anything but daft. Actually, they are perfectly charming when they email me. On with…
PRESS RELEASE: BHTV finished filming on new Operation Market Garden series.
BHTV finished filming on new Operation Market Garden series. Battlefield History TV have announced that after 2 years of filming on location, they have now…
REVIEW: THE PHANTOM ARMY OF ALAMEIN
Try and have a guess how many books have been published in the English language about some facet or other of World War II. Well…
REVIEW: AN ANZAC ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Books can be wonderful things and there have been times when I have really blessed my good fortune for accepting this gig when the coffee…
REVIEW: IMAGES OF WAR CARNAGE The German Front In World War One
I’ve been banging my drum about this series of books for a while now and I’m not ashamed to say the song remains the same…
REVIEW: SALAMANCA The Peninsular Collection DVD
Just for a change we are abandoning the 20th Century and skipping back a hundred years to the days of the redcoats when the British…
VIMY By Pierre Berton
A prolific and much loved writer, the late Pierre Berton’s passion for Canadian history resounded through his long career as a journalist and broadcaster. A…
24HR TRENCH: Mark Barnes spends the day with the author – Andy Robertshaw
I’m not quite sure how best to describe Andy Robertshaw. He might prefer historian, writer, educator, documentary maker, museum director or archaeologist; I am really…
JOCKS IN THE JUNGLE Black Watch & Cameronians As Chindits
When you buy your copy of this book, and I really think you should; it probably won’t come with the rather dramatic press release. “This…
Top 5 Picks of WW1 Steel Helmets
FIRST WORLD WAR relics are considered to be special not only because they bear witness to the event of a first ‘total war’ in which…
IMAGES OF WAR U-108 at WAR
How do they do it? I do not know. I have heaped praise on other books in this range before and along they come with…