FACT FILE TRIO – Review by Mark Barnes
As we have been discussing Christmas in recent missives it seems sensible to highlight some neat little books from Pen & Sword by Alexander…
Images of War series – Review by Mark Barnes
Here are two very nice books in the Images of War range by Michael Green. I have been sitting on these two a bit too…
Hidden Warships – Review by Mark Barnes
You know those moments when you are down the pub with your mates and a friend of a friend of one of them joins the…
HITLER’S WAVE BREAKER CONCEPT – Review by Chris Buckham
The gradual changing of the fortunes of war for the Germans, starting in late 1942, witnessed the transition from offensive to defensive operations for the…
THREE GEMS FROM HAYNES PUBLISHING – Reviewed by Mark Barnes for War History Online.
Well, playmates, Armistice Day and Bonfire Night are behind us and now that British TV is awash with adverts for it I feel safer about…
A SUPERB DUO FROM SEAFORTH PUBLISHING – Review by Mark Barnes
Seaforth books always bring a smile to my face. I like the layout and the use of archive photography and their books have been some…
YANKS AND LIMEYS – Review by Mark Barnes
However serious a student of World War II you are and whether you live in Boston, Massachusetts or Boston, Lincolnshire, the story of the Anglo-American…
DON McCULLIN – The New Definitive Edition – Review by Mark Barnes
This is not a war book per se and it is certainly not a history book, so you might ask why is it being reviewed…
DEATH OF THE LEAPING HORSEMEN – Review by Chris Buckham
The surrender of the German 6th Army following the battle of Stalingrad marked not only the end of the myth of German invincibility but also…
FURY – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
Cast your weary minds back to the summer of 2013. I was sitting with a colleague in the press office at the War & Peace…
LOVE LETTERS OF THE GREAT WAR – Review by John Henry Phillips
Inevitably, the next four years will play host to a flood of new books on the Great War. Some for the regular enthusiast, others for…
D-DAY JUNE 6TH 1944 – Following in the Footsteps of Heroes – Review by Mark Barnes
This summer’s commemoration in Normandy may well be the last of the kind we’ve seen in modern times. As the decades since the momentous events of…