MHM

CONTENTS

April/May 2022

FEATURES

UPFRONT

Welcome

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Notes from the Frontline 6 In Memoriam 10 Dr Neil Faulkner

War Classics

MHM looks at Alan Clark’s Barbarossa: the Russian–German conflict 1941-45

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War Culture

Samurai: history and legend

Samurai: history and legend

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SPECIAL

Renaissance warfare: a military revolution

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The military history of the Renaissance period has been neglected. In our special this issue, we attempt to address this imbalance by looking at the transformation of warfare in the early 16th century. First, we offer an overview of the Italian Wars and the changes in military organisation that they fostered. Then we analyse one signal encounter, the Battle of Bicocca, fought exactly 500 years ago this spring.

18 Churchill’s darkest hour The fall of Singapore and

the military disasters of 1942 Taylor Downing looks at a doom-laden year for the British war effort

40 The charge of the Iron Fleet Charleston, 7 April 1863

Michael Laramie describes the attack on Fort Sumter by a fleet of Union ironclads

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But for a few misplaced bombs The Butterfly Effect John Lock looks at the accident that triggered the Blitz

56 A tale of three farms Conflict Archaeology

Euan Loarridge describes a major project to investigate the battlefield of Waterloo

April/May 2022