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Machine of the Month: Jagdpanzer

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In March 1943, assault guns were supplied for the first time in larger numbers to branches of the armed forces other than the assault artillery. Initially, the three Panzer divisions that were destroyed at Stalingrad (14.PzDiv, 16.PzDiv and 24.PzDiv) each received a Panzer-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung (PzStuGAbt – armoured assault gun battalion). This was followed in June by the PzGrenDiv (created from infantry division [mot]), which were in the process of being formed.

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Masters of the Air: What Might Have Been

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A decade in the works, the much anticipated Masters of the Air is a great television series which had the potential to be monumental. But most critics have agreed that this vast epic about the USAAF 100th Bomb Group, however powerful it was in its finest moments, failed to achieve the emotional connection of Band of Brothers, the 2001 milestone series from the same executive producers, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks.

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Soviet Cruisers in World War II

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In Western histories of the Second World War the Soviet Navy is often written off as all but irrelevant. With the Baltic Fleet bottled up near Leningrad for most of the war, the smaller Northern Fleet is often derided in the English-language literature for not playing the sort of role in the defence of Allied Arctic Convoys that the British Admiralty expected of it.

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The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner

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My passion for the Wars of the Roses – a passion that has now culminated in the publication of my book on the subject – began back in 1994, when a visit to Bosworth battlefield provided my epiphany and changed the course of my life and career. I had already been a professional artist for ten years, and begun to branch out into painting medieval subjects, but these early canvases were inspired by Arthurian legend rather than real history.

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