Featured battle : Myton

Part of Anglo-Scottish Wars

Date : 20 September 1319

While Edward II was laying siege to Berwick on Tweed, the Scottish under the Earl of Moray and Lord James Douglas launched a diversionary attack into England to take some of the pressure off the besieged garrison. The English in York found out about the invasion and hastily put together a force to intercept, which it did at the village of Myton-on-Swale. The Scots were a trained and battle hardened force arrayed on the ridge overlooking the river. The English, on the other hand were a scratch force of towns-people of York and ecclesiastics under the Archbishop of York, and lined up on the marshy pasture below the ridge after crossing the river via the small bridge. The result was never in doubt as the Scots advanced in schiltron and crashed into the loose formation, scattering and routing the townsfolk. The battle is known as the 'White battle' because of the number of churchmen in their pale habits who were left dead upon the field

The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

Ian Baxter
Like other books in the Images of War series this book is packed full of superb photographs. A huge amount of detail of the 6th Army’s equipment and people is shown in a set of rare, many previously unpublished, photographs. The annotations are most informative and the supporting text, only ten of the hundred and fifty five pages, gives a brief overview of the campaign. What I found particularly interesting was the different slant on the causes of the defeat. In this book the strength and organization of the Soviet army is given more weight than the Russian winter. There is a distinct absence of the usual crop of photographs of grotesquely frozen German soldiers.
Anyone, even those with only a passing interest in World War Two, would enjoy this book and for re-enactors it could prove a gold mine. We highly recommend it.

Pen & Sword Military, 2020