History of War – October 2019

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BRITISHCIVILWARS On 14 June 1644 CharlesI wroteto Prince Bewdley(Worcs).Hisletterwasexcited– if changes,alterationsandcorrection ...

IN THE RANKS The cavalry and infantry of both sides carried a variety of weapons into battle BRITISH CIVIL WARS Frontline THELON ...

britishcivilwars 17th century cavalry tactics increasingly relied on speed and manoeuvrability, eschewing the heavier armour of ...

ROUNDHEADS, ROYALISTS AND RADICALS The wars forged the careers of talented, self-made Parliamentarian soldiers who took on their ...

SIRTHOMASFAIRFAX1612-71 THEGALLANTCOMMANDEROFTHENEWMODEL ARMYWHOWONTHEBATTLEOFNASEBY A Yorkshiregentleman,Fairfaxsawmilitaryserv ...

80 yearsagoHitlercontinuedtoexpandtheThirdReich’sbordersbyinvadingneighbouring Poland.Thenation’sarmedforcesfoughtback,becomingt ...

Adolf Hitler salutes troops marching across the River San, Poland, 10 September 1939 “ S urelytheydon’twantto attackus,”thetankd ...

Poland had re-emerged in 1918 following the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Central Powers – Germany and Austria- Hungary ...

Above:Viewfromthecockpitof a Heinkel bomber,flyingovera Polishtown Above:Wehrmachtsoldierspullopena barrierat theGerman-Polishbo ...

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At 8.00pm,on 31 August1939,SS menundertheleadershipof MajorAlfred Naujocks,attackeda radiostationin the Germanbordertownof Gleiw ...

But the sacrifice was in vain. Unknown to Poland’s soldiers, their cause was effectively abandoned, even as the fighting raged o ...

officer. At Kajetanowice, 72 Poles were massacred in response to the death of two Wehrmacht horses in a friendly fire incident. ...

Germantroops paradethroughthe capitalWarsaw taken near Wytyczno, for example, was locked in the local town hall and denied medic ...

Why,then,didthePoleslose?Theeasy answerandtheanswerthatGermanwartime propagandawouldhaveusbelievewas– Blitzkrieg.ThePoleswereove ...

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B orn around 275 BCE, Hamilcar Barca grew to manhood in an expanding Mediterranean commercial empire centred on the wealthy Nort ...

“IN 247 BCE,CARTHAGE COMMANDOFTHESTALL THISWASHAMILCARBAR BEONEOFCARTHAGE’SM HAMILCAR Praised by Diodorus Siculus for hisnob hig ...