Leicester to Libya – Review by Mark Barnes
Read any of the great accounts of warfare from the major publishing houses and it will be apparent their reliance on primary sources for details…
Stations of Coastal Command Then and Now – Review by Mark Barnes
Books from After The Battle continue to have a strong influence on me and during this hugely important year for me as a writer I…
Airmen Behind The Medals – Review By Mark Barnes
Graham Pitchfork is a prolific author and happens to be a retired air force officer of vast experience and he brings all this to the books…
Bloody Paralyser – The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War – Review by Mark Barnes
I had the pleasure of reviewing Rob Langham’s first book some time back and now he has returned with a second. I am not kidding…
The Tangier Archive – Review By Mark Barnes
I have worked at the same photographic archive for nearly three decades and even after all this time there is an awful lot of material…
A GROUP PHOTOGRAPH – Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online.
Christmas in 2015 was a bit weird due to recent changes in my life and I was never much of a fan anyway. I don’t…
RAF IN CAMERA – 1960s – Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online
I loved Keith Wilson’s look at the RAF during the 1950s, but this volume, if anything, is even better. If I am 100% honest with…
The Panavia Tornado – Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online
Pen & Sword produced some genuinely lovely aviation photo archive books during 2015 and I still have a few to tell you about that appeared…
VISITING THE FALLEN: ARRAS – Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online.
When I first started my pilgrimage on the Great War battlefields I set myself an agenda that involved what I can only describe as ‘collecting’…
NEVER SURRENDER – Review by Mark Barnes for War History Online.
On 13th May 1940 Winston Churchill rose to speak in the House of Commons. “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one…
TANK – Review by Mark Barnes
Regulars will know that I have a view on books like this one. To my mind, they can set themselves up for all manner of…
Too Brave To Live, Too Young To Die – Review by Mark Barnes
I have made a point of abstaining from Great War books for some time now. There will always be exceptions, hence this review; but I…