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Featured battle : Krithia (2nd Battle)
Part of First World War
Date : 06 May 1915 - 08 May 1915
Three days of desperate and often un-coordinated fighting, using up the sector's entire supply of artillery ammunition managed to gain the Allies one kilometer of advance into the Turkish position for the loss of 6000 men.
Featured image :
"Dads Army" - Home Guard being put though his paces
Members of the 'Mainwarinings Mob' re-enactment group who recreate a unit of the British Home Guard during WW2. Although too old to join regular units and some have argued of potentially limited value during an actual invasion, they were of great morale value to the home front. They also pay homage to the classic British television series 'Dad's Army' which first aired in 1968.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1914-1939
Dick Taylor
The fly leaf note calls this book a tour de force and so it is. It very thoroughly covers the very beginning of British armoured vehicles through to 1939. The first fumbling attempts towards mechanized warfare gave Britain world leader status by the end of the First World war. The internal politics of the army plus the financial constraints of the depression lost us that leadership by the start of the Second World war. Naturally there is a lot about the use and misuse of the first tanks and some dramatic description of conditions inside them. This book ranges from battlefield heroism to Whitehall shenanigans and tells both stories well.
There are a lot of photographs scattered through the book, the appendices are a mini reference book in themselves and the bibliography is extensive.
This is the first of a three volume work and the next volume cannot come too soon. We very highly recommend it
Pen & Sword Military, 2022
Reviewed : 2022-04-12 10:30:14
