History of War

From the conquering legions of Ancient Rome to the thunderous tank battles of World War II and beyond, History of War takes you deeper inside the minds of history’s fighting men, further under the bonnets of some of the world’s most devastating war machines, and higher above the battlefield to see the broad sweep of conflict as it happened.

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: OCTOBER • In this issue’s Frontline, Pearl Harbor midget submarines, Russia’s great power status, American Revolution propaganda, Warsaw at war, and the Office of Strategic Services’ development

“PUTIN IS HAUNTED BY STATE FRAGILITY” • How the Russian leader uses great power status and a twisted interpretation of history to preserve his regime

PROPAGANDA IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION • By the time fighting broke out in Britain’s North American colonies in 1775, a different kind of war had already been raging for years

“THE TRAGEDY OF WARSAW IS A GRAVE WARNING” Q&A WITH PRIT BUTTAR & LOTTIE TAYLOR • The father-daughter historian duo discuss the turbulent history of the Polish capital, the critical lessons it provides a Europe in crisis, and the Soviet-era playbook still being used in Russia today

PEARL HARBOR’S SUBMARINE STRIKE • On 7 December 1941, while Japan’s surprise strike against the US Navy’s Hawaiian base was unfolding, five tiny craft launched their own covert mission beneath the waves

THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES PART II: FINDING THE RIGHT PEOPLE • America’s first civilian intelligence agency and secret army was the predecessor of the CIA and the US Army Special Forces

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NAPOLEON’S LAST STAND • Inside the emperor’s fateful campaign, the Battle of Paris and the fall of the French Empire

THE FRANKFURT PROPOSALS A LOST PEACE

MURAT’S BETRAYAL ROYALTY OVER LOYALTY

SECRET INSTRUCTIONS TO CAULAINCOURT

THE TRAGEDY OF ESSONNES

NAZI NUKES THE THIRD REICH’S SECRET QUEST FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB …AND WHY IT FAILED • Persecution, lab disasters, political infighting and Allied sabotage blew up Hitler’s chance of building the ultimate weapon

Why Nazi nukes needed heavy water • A moderator is as important as uranium when making nuclear weapons

CLEARING THE FOG OF WAR • The Manhattan Project’s Alsos Mission investigated the Nazi nuclear programme’s progress

THE MYTH OF THE NAZI ATOMIC BOMB • Would Germany’s nuclear scientists ever have given the Wehrmacht a nuclear weapon?

OPERATION PEDESTAL • In the summer of 1942, with besieged Malta down to its last few days of food and fuel, an Allied convoy braved relentless Axis firepower to save the island fortress

RAZING WARSAW THE DECISION THAT CONSUMED A CITY • In the summer of 1944, as German forces retreated across occupied Poland before the advancing Soviets, a decision was forming on the streets of the capital that would spark the largest military effort by any European resistance movement in WWII

GREAT BATTLES CAMDEN • Fought in the South Carolina backcountry, Camden witnessed the near total destruction of a badly deployed American field army

OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK VOUGHT F4U CORSAIR • This American fighter earned the nickname ‘Whistling Death’ in air combat against the Japanese in the Second World War

LONDON RISING FROM THE ASHES • NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM BOOK AWARD AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN MILITARY HISTORY PRIZE, REFLECTIONS OF WAR CONTAINS 150 PREVIOUSLY LOST SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, METICULOUSLY RESTORED AND EXPERTLY RESEARCHED BY AUTHOR PETER DELEURAN

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