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Masters of the Air: What Might Have Been

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

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

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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Machine of the Month: The Destroyer USS Kidd

The early 1940s saw the introduction of a new destroyer class for the US Navy, which became known as the Fletcher-class. The first ships were commissioned just in time to take part in heavy combat during the Pacific War, and the excellent performance of the Fletcher-class enabled some refitted destroyers to serve in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

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