Description
In this issue:
– Don McCullin on Hue. Don McCullin, perhaps the most famous war photographer in the world, speaks exclusively to Military Times about his experiences at the Battle of Hue, as a major 50-year retrospective exhibition of his life and work opens at the Imperial War Museum London.
– History of the British Army in 25 Battles – Fontenoy. Low pay, rotten conditions, and brutal discipline meant recruitment relied on the press-gang and the courts. Yet, at Fontenoy on 11 May 1745, British redcoats mounted a grand assault as spectacular as Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg. How was it possible?
– AD 1016. Forget 1066 and the Norman Conquest. Exactly 50 years earlier, Anglo-Saxon England had been conquered by the Vikings. Dark Age historian Jeffrey James brings us the story.
– War In Tuscany. Chris Bambery’s article on the Second World War explores the largely hidden struggle between partisans and Nazis in remote rural Italy between 1943 and 1945 -a war of savage little fire-fights and terrible atrocities, the full truth of which is only now being discovered.
– Broadcasting in War. Military historian Robert Bateman reports on the groundbreaking work of Ed Murrow, the US radio journalist who pioneered live reporting from a distant war zone during the London Blitz of 1940.
Plus: news, reviews, museums, opinion columns, and much more!
From the Editor:
Don McCullin is perhaps the most famous photojournalist in the world. Between 1964 and 1984, his images of war helped transform popular perceptions of its realities. One battle in particular continues to haunt him: Hue in Vietnam in February 1968. As an exhibition of his life and work opens at the Imperial War Museum London, we have an exclusive interview covering the two gruelling weeks he spent with US marines on Hue’s front-line.
War journalism is the theme of another of feature this month. Military historian Robert Bateman reports on the groundbreaking work of Ed Murrow, the US radio journalist who pioneered live reporting from a distant war zone during the London Blitz of 1940.
By contrast, Chris Bambery’s article on the Second World War explores the largely hidden struggle between partisans and Nazis in remote rural Italy between 1943 and 1945 – a war of savage little fire-fights and terrible atrocities, the full truth of which is only now being uncovered.
Then we roll back to the 18th century for the fourth in our British battles series. Low pay, rotten conditions, and brutal discipline meant recruitment relied on the press-gang and the courts. Yet, at Fontenoy on 11 May 1745, British redcoats mounted a grand assault as spectacular as Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg. How was it possible?
Our final feature is a rare excursion to the early medieval period. Forget 1066 and the Norman Conquest. Exactly 50 years earlier, Anglo-Saxon England had been conquered by the Vikings. Dark Age historian Jeffrey James brings us the story.
Cover Date: Oct-2011, Volume 2 Issue 1