WINCHESTER LEVER-ACTION RIFLES & MAUSER MILITARY RIFLES Review by Mark Barnes
My esteemed colleague Phil Hodges is a big fan of Osprey books but he has been a bit busy working as a fighter pilot in…
Reporting The Second World War – Review by Mark Barnes
This is a book after my own heart. I left it sitting on the shelf for a bit too long as I waded through other…
Seeing The War – The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs of World War II – Review by Mark Barnes
I happen to know a bit about war photography and it will come as no surprise that I really like this book by David P…
I Just Wanted To Fly – Review by Mark Barnes
The City of London is a hectic place on any working day as tens of thousands of people flock into the Square Mile to go…
The Great War Illustrated (1915) – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we have the second volume in a series that it is safe to assume has three more to go. There really is a limited…
Destination Pacific – Review by Mark Barnes
Many years ago my ex-wife’s family tried their best to get her father to write his life story down but he refused. He was a…
Three of a kind: The stories of three pilots from different conflicts – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
The self-publishing juggernaut rumbles on with this entertaining and quite personal work from Kerry White from Australia. Having published two previous books, he now turns to the…
Tanked Up – Celebrating 5 Years World Of Tanks – At The Tank Museum
Mark Barnes and James Barnes enjoy another Wargaming roadshow. Thankfully, one of them had some idea what was going on and took notes. It will…
Luftwaffe X-Planes – Review by Mark Barnes
I profess to being a little confused when I first saw this book because I reviewed the same author’s X-Planes a good while ago and…
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj – Review by Chris Buckham
Intratheatre civil conflict, with its roots in religion, tribalism or ethnic differences, represents some of the most brutal and savage of conflicts. When initiated by…
Aircraft Carriers – The Illustrated History of the World’s Most Important Warships – Review by Mark Barnes
The nice people at Zenith Press in the United States have been mailing me books via UPS for a while now and I always manage…
A handful of heroes – Rorke’s Drift. Facts, Myths and Legends – Review by Mark Barnes
I doubt there are many visitors to WHO Towers who aren’t fans of classic war movies. The great era for them has long since passed and…