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Featured battle : Arlon
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 09 June 1793
Part of the French Armée de la Moselle pushing towards Germany brushed aside the much smaller Austrian force.
Featured image :
RAF Linton-on-Ouse - Servicing Tucanos

A row of Tucano T1's undergoing line servicing inside one of the hangars at RAF Linton-on-Ouse. The hangars have changed little in 65 years.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Hitler's War in Africa 1941-42
David Mitchelhill-Green
This is a quality read which I am sorry to say, by ending just after Alamein, finishes too soon. It is clear from the massive bibliography and extensive footnotes that a great deal of research has gone into the writing of this book. There is sufficient information about the strategic position of the North African theatre to give context to the tactical events. However the real life of the book is in the quotations from individuals on both sides of the conflict. The reader isn’t spared from the truth about war and some of the more gruesome passage make quite uncomfortable reading. One British soldier’s comment on burying German dead has stuck with me he wrote ‘apart from the uniform they are just like us.’
There are a few useful maps most of which have scales and keys. There are sixteen pages of appropriate photographs but incidentally there are many more in David Mitchelhill-Green’s Images of War books from this same publisher.
This book is both informative and gripping, a jolly good read, which we highly recommend and hope that a further book, Alamein to the end, is on the way.
Pen & Sword Military, 2021
Reviewed : 2021-09-12 10:00:30