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MHM’s round-up of the latest military history releases.

Sky Warriors: British airborne forces in the Second World War

REVIEW BY GRAHAM GOODLAD The Second World War saw the parachute and glider used to deploy troops in large numbers for the first and last time in military history. The technology had simply not been available in the Great War,…

Location of long-lost British submarine identified off Greek coast

The British submarine HMS Triumph was lost in mysterious circumstances off the coast of Greece in 1942. Now she has been located, after a search lasting more than 25 years. The submarine, which was involved in various special operations during…

SAS Great Escapes Two: Six untold epic escapes made by World War Two heroes

REVIEW BY DAVID FLINTHAM Sequels can often be disappointing: they put additional pressure on the author to come up with something as good as the original, and create a sense of expectation among the readership which can be hard to…

The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942 – the heroic story of Operation Chariot

The superficial justification for Operation Chariot – the daring British commando raid on the French port of St Nazaire in March 1942 – was that it would deny Tirpitz a crucial repair dock. The destruction of the fearsome German battleship…

Operation Anthropoid: killing the Hangman of Prague

Graham Goodlad describes the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the Third Reich’s most sinister figures, and its bloody aftermath.

MHM’s round-up of the latest military history titles

• Paths of Fire: the gun and the world it made
• Pathfinders
• The Viking Great Army and the Making of England
• SBS: Silent Warriors
• The Confidence Men: how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history
• Blood and Ruins: the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945