Written by
Jon Lake on May 01, 2002
Regarded by some of his detractors as little short of a war criminal, and as a war-winning hero by his admirers, Sir Arthur Harris, Bomber Command’s wartime Commander-in-Chief, remains an extremely controversial figure ...
Written by
Steven J Zaloga on July 01, 2001
Popular histories of modern wars inevitably simplify events and create myths and legends. The campaign in Normandy has created more than most, especially in view of the numerous television documentaries on this theme. For example, it is difficult to find an account of the breakout from Normandy ...
Written by
Neil Short on May 01, 2001
In his article 'Advancing Backwards' (Osprey Military Journal issue 2.1) Charles Winchester gave a detailed reappraisal of the German Army in the Second World War. He concludes that the Wehrmacht ...
Written by
Stephen Turnbull on January 01, 2001
Greater differences between knights and samurai arise when we turn from the technology of the military revolution to its more personal expression...
Written by
Stephen Turnbull on November 01, 2000
In my book Men-at-Arms 105, The Mongols I made the comment that, because of the vast extent of the Mongol conquests, the Teutonic Knights of Germany and the samurai of Japan had in fact fought a common enemy, even though it was to be three more centuries before the two martial societies became aware of each other's existence...
Written by
Carl Smith on July 01, 2000
For the Union, 1 July 1863 had been a bad day. General Robert E. Lee's Confederates had shoved the Army of the Potomac east and south from McPherson's Ridge and Oak Ridge out of Gettysburg and back to their 'fishhook' position on the high ground formed by the Round Tops, Cemetery Ridge and Hill, and Culp's Hill...
Written by
Peter Armstrong on January 01, 2000
Osprey's first publication of the new millennium in their Masterclass series is Pete Armstrong's book Ancient and Medieval Modelling. Those of you who have bought a copy hot off the press will recognise the mounted figure of the Earl of Warwick featured here...
Written by
John Prigent on August 01, 1999
The original purpose of the German remote controlled vehicles was for minefield clearance, the intention being to guide a small unarmoured tractor through the minefield while it towed a threepart roller device to explode the mines...