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…
X-PLANES German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945
By the title alone you know you will like this book and I am pleased to say it does not disappoint once you get inside.…
HITLER’S OLYMPICS THE STORY OF THE 1936 NAZI GAMES
It seems quite appropriate to me that we should publish the review of this book on the day of the opening ceremony of the London…
THE BATTLE EAST OF ELSENBORN AND THE TWIN VILLAGES
You see people reading some pretty rum stuff on trains and I wasn’t surprised when the guy opposite me did a double take when he…
THE WORLD’S FIRST SWAT TEAM
Like Joseph, this book has a coat of many colours. It is by turn a history book, a travel guide and a social circular. It…
SO FEW GOT THROUGH WITH THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS FROM NORMANDY TO THE BALTIC
First published in 1946, this book is very much of its time but can genuinely lay claim to be a classic. Martin Lindsay was a…
OPERATION BARBAROSSA AND THE EASTERN FRONT 1941
We import a great deal from North America and a big chunk of it is language to mix up our lovely Old World vernacular. Some…