
War Classics: ‘The Face of Battle’
The Vietnam War and associated public distaste for military intervention also provided a challenge as to how the study of warfare was conducted and presented.

The Vietnam War and associated public distaste for military intervention also provided a challenge as to how the study of warfare was conducted and presented.

Heinrich Severloh was a good soldier. On 6 June 1944, the 20-year-old Wehrmacht private manned a machine-gun overlooking Omaha Beach. He did his job without complaint: mowing down American soldiers as they disembarked on to the shore more than 500…