FIELD NOTES / GALLUS ARCHIVE
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Every article belongs to a wider campaign space. Use the campaign links above for a guided reading order, or browse the archive below by publication date.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A source-led biography of Major John Howard DSO: his preparation of D Company, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, the six-glider Operation Deadstick coup de main, seizure and defence of Pegasus Bridge...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A veteran-led complete field guide to Pegasus Bridge on 6 June 1944: political and operational context, Operation Tonga map, coup-de-main order of battle, German defence, John Howard and Den Brotheridge biographies, six...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, from the Somme and wartime offensive command to Allied coordination and supreme command during the victories of 1918.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A veteran-led complete field guide to D-Day, 6 June 1944: political and strategic context, invasion map and axes, Allied and German order of battle, Eisenhower, Montgomery and Rommel biographies, airborne operations, Utah,...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, examining the Somme, the expansion and learning of the BEF, the controversies of attrition and the victories of 1918.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of General Georg von der Marwitz, commander of German Second Army at Cambrai and Amiens, comparing the successful recovery of 1917 with the systemic shock of 8 August 1918.
SECOND WORLD WAR
Ryan Small’s first-person look at Erwin Rommel’s Normandy problem: Army Group B, Atlantic Wall defences, the argument over armoured reserves, his absence on 6 June and the German command problem during D-Day.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Brigadier-General Hugh Elles, commander of the Tank Corps at Cambrai in 1917: tank development, preparation, his decision to lead from Hilda, combined-arms lessons and his legacy in British armour.
SECOND WORLD WAR
Ryan Small’s first-person look at Bernard Montgomery’s D-Day role: 21st Army Group, the five-beach ground plan, Caen, coalition command and the problem of building combat power beyond the first landing waves.
FIRST WORLD WAR
The complete Battle of Cambrai field guide: the political and strategic setting, battlefield map and axes, British Third Army and German Second Army orders of battle, Byng, Elles and Marwitz, massed Mark...
NAPOLEONIC WARS
Biography of Marshal Michel Ney, focusing on Quatre Bras, the cavalry attacks at Waterloo and the command problems of Napoleon’s final campaign.
NAPOLEONIC WARS
Biography of Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher, focusing on the Prussian recovery after Ligny, the march from Wavre and his decisive role at Waterloo.
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