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.
FALKLANDS WAR
A comprehensive veteran-led guide to the final Falklands battles around Stanley, 11–14 June 1982: political and operational lead-up, terrain and attack axes, British and Argentine forces, Mount Longdon, Two Sisters, Mount Harriet,...
SECOND WORLD WAR
The real history of Keep Calm and Carry On: Britain’s 1939 Ministry of Information campaign, the three national morale posters, 2.45 million copies distributed into the system but rarely displayed, contemporary criticism...
FALKLANDS WAR
A balanced biography of Argentine commander Ítalo Piaggi: RI 12 at Darwin–Goose Green, Task Force Mercedes, the 29 May surrender, post-war sanction and the later Argentine Army review that challenged the original...
SECOND WORLD WAR
A global campaign guide to the Second World War: Poland, France and the Battle of Britain, the Atlantic and North Africa, Barbarossa and the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor and the Pacific, the turning...
FALKLANDS WAR
A full biography of Chris Keeble DSO: pre-Falklands career, preparing 2 PARA for war, taking command after H Jones was killed, the surrender at Goose Green, his DSO and later career.
SECOND WORLD WAR
The political road to the Second World War in Europe: the post-1918 settlement, the Weimar crisis, Hitler’s dictatorship and racial ideology, rearmament, the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia, appeasement, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the...
FALKLANDS WAR
A full biography of 2 PARA commanding officer Herbert “H” Jones: career, Falklands deployment, the decision-making at Goose Green, his death on Darwin Hill, Victoria Cross citation, later debate and legacy.
FALKLANDS WAR
A comprehensive field guide to the Battle of Goose Green, 28–29 May 1982: Falklands War political context, British and Argentine order of battle, battlefield map and axes of advance, commanders, detailed chronology,...
FALKLANDS WAR
A comprehensive veteran-led field guide to the San Carlos landings on 21 May 1982: political and operational lead-up, landing beaches, British and Argentine order of battle, commanders, Fanning Head, the air battle...
FALKLANDS WAR
A comprehensive guide to the 1982 Falklands campaign from the 2 April invasion to the 14 June surrender: political context, Task Force, commanders, naval and air war, San Carlos, Goose Green, the...
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Burmester Pulleine, the officer left in command of the British camp at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879.
ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Biography of Corporal Christian Ferdinand Schiess VC, the Swiss-born Natal Native Contingent soldier who fought throughout Rorke’s Drift despite a wounded foot.
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