History of War - Issue 137

In this issue

FERDINAND SCHÖRNER - Nazi general who executed hundreds of his own men… then ran away.

BATTLE OF FLODDEN - Scotland's catastrophic defeat at the hands of Henry VIII's enforcer.

ALGERIAN WAR - Inside the nation's bloody struggle to throw off French rule...

ROOTS OF REVOLUTION

A century of French occupation led to a genocide in Algeria that provoked one of the bloodiest showdowns of the modern age

3 mins

THE RISE OF ALGERIAN RESISTANCE

How the anti-colonialist struggle around the globe helped inspire Algeria’s liberation movement to organise and fight back

3 mins

BATTLE OF ALGIERS

When the Front de libération nationale FLN) took its war to the streets of the capital, France’s military responded with merciless wrath

3 mins

COUPS & CHAOS

How the French armed forces lost the war in Algeria and almost destroyed French democracy in the process

3 mins

AIRBORNE UNDER SIEGE ARNHEM

For nine days the heroic 1st Airborne fought desperately, waiting vainly for relief that never came

10+ mins

DWIGHT W BIRDWELL

In the opening hours of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive, this Specialist Five led his armoured cavalry detachment in repulsing a fierce communist assault against Tan Son Nhut Air Base near Saigon

6 mins

THE FIVE STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP

Phillips O’Brien discusses how this quintet of national leaders impacted the course of the Second World War

9 mins

Great Battles FLODDEN

On the morning of 9 September 1513, King James lV of Scotland stood atop Flodden Hill with what seemed an insurmountable advantage over the English. Yet by the day's end he would lay slain and his army shattered

10+ mins

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History of War Magazine Description:

Discover the politics, mechanics, strategies and machines of war.

From the conquering legions of Ancient Rome to the thunderous tank battles of World War II and beyond, History of War takes you deeper inside the minds of history’s fighting men, further under the bonnets of some of the world’s most devastating war machines, and higher above the battlefield to see the broad sweep of conflict as it happened.