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    THREE SIPS OF GIN – Dominating the Battlespace With Rhodesia’s Elite Selous Scouts – Review by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    The Selous Scouts were a special forces unit from Rhodesia fighting against the insurgency which led ultimately to the creation of the state of Zimbabwe…

    DVD GUDERIAN’S TANKS – From Panzer I to Kongistiger. – Review by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    Once the narrator puts a cork in it for a bit, the DVD gets properly under way with a quite stunning sequence of beautifully choreographed pre-war propaganda films showing armour, aircraft and much more on exercise.

    FRITUUR ZORRO – A Second Life for Army Vehicles – Volume 4 – Review by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    FRITUUR ZORRO Volume 4 – A Second Life for Army Vehicles By Theo Barten and Maarten Swarts Published by Narwal ISBN: 978 90 817110 2 9…

    REVIEW: THE DEFENCE OF THE DARDANELLES by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    Standing out as one to watch for the bookies in the WHO What’s Not to Like championship stakes is this little gem from Michael Forrest.…

    REVIEW: SAILOR Battle of Britain Legend: ADOLPH MALAN by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    The American author Philip Kaplan is right at home with the Battle of Britain and his writing appeals to me very much. He brings a…

    REVIEW: SOUTHERN AND WEST COUNTRY AIRFIELDS OF THE D-DAY INVASION AIR FORCE by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    I won’t keep you long. Behind the enormously wordy title hides an extremely handy little book bringing the D-Day air war right to your door.…

    Outstanding review: BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF WORLD WAR ONE by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    Once there was a fleet so big and so powerful the world looked on in awe at it. It was as vast as it was…

    REVIEW: JOHNNY The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    Up in Scotland there is a tumbledown grave of an old soldier and his good lady where the health and safety people have been round.…

    REVIEW: BOEING B-52 STRATOFORTRESS Haynes Workshop Manual by Mark Barnes

    Mark Barnes

    In their last offering Haynes gave us the Vickers Wellington, a classic piece of 1930s technology from the mind of Barnes Wallis the genius we…

    REVIEW: ROMMEL’S ARMY IN THE DESERT By Mark Barnes

    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

    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

    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…