Notes from the Frontline 6 In Memoriam 10 Dr Neil Faulkner
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MHM looks at Alan Clark’s Barbarossa: the Russian–German conflict 1941-45
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Samurai: history and legend
Samurai: history and legend
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18 Churchill’s darkest hour The fall of Singapore and the military disasters of 1942 Taylor Downing looks at a doom-laden year for the British war effort
40 The charge of the Iron Fleet Charleston, 7 April 1863
Michael Laramie describes the attack on Fort Sumter by a fleet of Union ironclads
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But for a few misplaced bombs The Butterfly Effect John Lock looks at the accident that triggered the Blitz
56 A tale of three farms Conflict Archaeology
Euan Loarridge describes a major project to investigate the battlefield of Waterloo
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