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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
Ryan Small’s first-person look at General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander for D-Day: coalition command, the weather decision, Operation Overlord and the responsibility of launching the Normandy invasion.
NAPOLEONIC WARS
Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte focusing on his return from Elba, the Hundred Days campaign, Waterloo and the strategic limits of his final bid for power.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Generaloberst Ludwig von Falkenhausen, commander of the German Sixth Army during the Battle of Arras and the loss of Vimy Ridge in April 1917.
SECOND WORLD WAR
A complete planning guide to Operation Overlord: coalition strategy, COSSAC and SHAEF, Eisenhower and Montgomery, Allied and German command structures, Neptune, the air plan, Fortitude deception, Atlantic Wall, engineering and logistics, intelligence,...
NAPOLEONIC WARS
Biography of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, focusing on coalition command, use of ground and the decisions that shaped the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie from Vimy Ridge to command of the Canadian Corps at Amiens, focusing on preparation, mission understanding, secrecy and the Hundred Days.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng, from Canadian Corps and Vimy Ridge to command of British Third Army at Cambrai, focusing on preparation, mission understanding and combined-arms command.
FIRST WORLD WAR
A complete Vimy Ridge field guide: Arras strategic context, original 1917 barrage map and objective lines, Canadian and German orders of battle, Byng, Currie and Falkenhausen biographies, preparation, detailed 9–12 April chronology,...
FIRST WORLD WAR
A complete Western Front campaign guide from the BEF’s arrival in 1914 to the Armistice: Mons, the Marne and Ypres, trench deadlock, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Cambrai, the German Spring Offensives,...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A comprehensive Field Note on VE Day, 8 May 1945: the military collapse of Nazi Germany, Reims and Berlin surrender ceremonies, Churchill, Truman, Stalin and Dönitz, why Europe did not all mark...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Why the First World War began: Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, Germany’s blank cheque, mobilisation and the pressure of war plans, the invasion of neutral Belgium, Britain’s decision, and what 4 August meant...
FALKLANDS WAR
My source-led field guide to the Sea Harrier FRS.1 in the Falklands: carrier air defence, the real meaning of “20–0”, radar and fighter control, Sidewinder, maintenance, deck cycles and why the aircraft...
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