REVIEW: ROMMEL’S ARMY IN THE DESERT By Mark Barnes
I seem to have been more than a little marooned in the desert of late. It has become affixed in my thoughts thanks to Bryn…
REVIEW: The Lords of War by Mark Barnes
When I was a much younger me, prone to underthinking and new to so much of the history I now take for granted, I came…
REVIEW: EL ALAMEIN The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second of the Second World War by Mark Barnes
There is a lot of hyperbole about Alamein, but let’s be fair it matters to us because it was a British and Commonwealth victory that…
REVIEW: VICKERS WELLINGTON Owners’ Workshop Manual by Mark Barnes
Root around in your garage, shed or the dusty end of your book shelves and you will find a Haynes manual for a car…
REVIEW: THE LAST GREAT CAVALRYMAN by Mark Barnes
Pen & Sword were quite keen for me to review this book, well at least that is the impression they gave me because I received…
REVIEW: A GUNNER’S GREAT WAR by Mark Barnes
Clarence Percy Ahier died in 1972. He is buried in a shared unmarked grave in a St Helier suburb. He and his wife had no…
REVIEW: HIMMLER’S NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS by Mark Barnes
I’m not an especially religious man, but I do believe in an essential goodness, and I see it in a lot of people. I married…
Review: NOT ORDINARY MEN The Story of the Battle of Kohima by Mark Barnes
Feelings remain raw. If you are a regular subscriber to WHO you will have dipped into the occasional Second World War themed article on the…
REVIEW: THE ATLANTIC WALL History and Guide by Mark Barnes
If you have been anywhere along the coastline of Europe in territory which had been occupied by the Nazis you will come across the concrete…
REVIEW: MUSSOLINI’S NAVY by Mark Barnes
The thing about naval books is they have to be big. They can’t be small because the scale thing is important. If other reference books,…
REVIEW: Frituur Zorro Volume 3 by Mark Barnes
The pictures are amazing and those crazy Dutch guys know how to pick them. It isn’t a book of MVs, it’s a long running love…
REVIEW: THE MAFIA AT WAR by Mark Barnes
This book has been propping up the pile for some time in my mistaken belief that it would be a piece of suitable frippery for…