MHM 154 Letters – September
Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.
armoured warfare
Thunder in the East: Armoured warfare in South-East Asia and the Pacific, 1937-1945
From Burma to Iwo Jima, armoured fighting vehicles played a key role in some of World War II’s most challenging environments. Our military technology expert David Porter takes notes.
Imphal & Kohima: Turning point in Burma
Graham Goodlad analyses Slim’s crucial victory, which dispelled the myth of Japanese invincibility.
Back to the drawing board: The M551 Sheridan
David Porter on Military History's doomed inventions.
Master of the dark arts
In the first part of a new series on deception in World War II, Taylor Downing tells the story of Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke, Britain's flamboyant pioneer of misinformation.
The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The myth of Hitler’s greatest armoured defeat
REVIEW BY TOBY CLARK This new book by Dr Ben Wheatley of the University of East Anglia can claim success in the fields of both academic and popular history. With a nod to the Soviet ideal of ‘deep battle’, Wheatley…
Back to the Drawing Board: the M11/39 Medium Tank
DAVID PORTER ON MILITARY HISTORY’S DOOMED INVENTIONS
El Alamein: turning point in the desert
Graham Goodlad analyses Montgomery’s epic clash with Rommel’s forces, which signalled the end for Nazi Germany’s ambitions in the Middle East.
Case Blue: the Eastern Front between Barbarossa and Stalingrad
Eighty years on, David Porter analyses Germany’s plan to launch another great offensive in the summer of 1942.
The Battle of Chinese Farm
William Stroock analyses the decisive battle of the 1973 Yom Kippur War: a massive clash of Egyptian and Israeli armour in the Sinai Desert.
An Englishman at War: the wartime diaries of Stanley Christopherson, DSO, MC, TD, 1939-1945
When Stanley Christopherson wrote in his diary in late November 1945, he proclaimed, ‘So many outstanding things were done during this war, which so thoroughly deserved an award, but were never witnessed.’ The truism is appropriate. Recalling the battle conducted…
Operation Bagration
Which was more important, D-Day or Operation Bagration? Chris Bambery argues that it was on the Eastern Front that the fate of Nazi Germany was sealed.
A39 Tortoise Heavy Assault Tank
The Tortoise was to be a well-armoured assault vehicle that could break through heavily defended areas. But Its sheer bulk and weight meant that rail transportation was impossible, and it far exceeded the capacity of any landing craft or standard Bailey bridges.
Prokhorovka: the greatest tank battle in history?
Bill Purdue takes a look at recent critical reappraisal of this famous clash of Soviet and Nazi armour in the summer of 1943.