With many museums and galleries still closed, Military History Matters has compiled a guide to some interesting websites you can check out from the safety of your own home. Click on the links below to find out more.
Articles
REVIEW – Conflict Landscapes: an archaeology of the international brigades in the Spanish Civil War
The approach is admirably interdisciplinary, blending traditional archaeological fieldwork with historical documentation, and analysis of 38 photographs from the 15th International Brigade.
When was Britain’s finest hour?
When was Britain’s finest hour? For most readers the answer is easy: the summer of 1940, when Britain stood alone in defiance of the Third Reich, urged on by the soaring rhetoric of Winston Churchill. Chris Bambery disagrees.
Back to the Drawing Board: the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
It was a futuristic-looking aircraft, which Lockheed publicised as ‘a missile with a man in it’.
REVIEW – Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: how a British civil servant helped cause the Second World War
Adrian Phillips gives us a new and fascinating angle on the whole sorry saga of miscalculation and moral surrender that led up to the Second World War.
War of Words – ‘Zeppelin’
‘Zeppelin’ appeared in English that same year in Whitaker’s Almanack: ‘The Zeppelin Air-ship… is a cylindrical frame of aluminium in partitions, each holding a gas-bag.’
War Athletes: Donald Bell
Temporary 2nd Lieutenant Donald Bell, relying on adrenaline and instinct, led two men from his company through the mud of no-man’s land, firing his revolver with one hand and hurling a well-aimed Mills bomb with the other.
D-Day on film
One of the most dramatic events in history, it is no wonder that D-Day has received such extensive film coverage.
REVIEW – Military Strategy: a global history
Black’s ‘shotgun’ approach takes us from Thucydides to Vergennes via Clausewitz, Napoleon, and Hitler, as he attempts to blend incisive historical insight with contemporary practice.
REVIEW – Dresden: the fire and the darkness
Sinclair McKay’s well-researched, detailed, and all-embracing book is the first major study of the bombing of Dresden to be published for 15 years, and covers equally the pre-war history of the city – ‘The Florence of Germany’ – the horrors of the RAF and USAAF attacks, and the mainly Stalinist-style rebuilding prior to German reunification.
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