Page 3 - History of War - Issue 29-16

WELCOME TO ISSUE 29
Welcome CONTRIBUTORS TOM GARNER

For years Tom has been
championing the great (but
forgotten) exploits of John,
Duke of Bedford, brother of
“Rebellion must have an unassailable base, Henry V. This issue he sets
something guarded not merely from attack, the record straight, exploring
Bedford’s victory at Verneuil,
but from the fear of it” and his campaign against
– TE Lawrence, The Evolution of a Revolt (1920) Joan of Arc (page 52).
ALICE ROBERTS-PRATT
hile the Western Front caught up with Il Duce, who was As Heritage Project Of cer,
was mired in static promptly and unceremoniously Alice has been preparing
Wtrench attrition, a shot – Axis Italy’s figurehead had for the National Museum of
finally been toppled.
highly mobile guerilla rebellion finally been toppled. the Royal Navy’s Battle of
was raging in the harsh deserts Jutland centenary exhibition:
of the Middle East. Though it ‘36 Hours’. On page 28,
may have been just a ‘sideshow she recounts how HMS Lion
of a sideshow’, the Arab Revolt survived the battle, thanks to
of 1916-18 shook up the one man’s sacri ce.
balance of power in the region, DAVID SMITH
and produced one of the most After the invasion of Sicily in
iconic figures of the war. 1943, the fate of Axis Italy
In this issue we also tackle and its dictator was all but
another sideshow that played sealed. However, as David
out in Northern Italy, as Tim Williamson explores, Il Duce’s nal fall
Mussolini’s Social Republic Editor would only come after a long
crumbled around him at the and brutal struggle between
hands of a bitter civil war. In EMAIL remaining Axis forces and
April 1945 partisan fighters frontline@imagine-publishing.co.uk partisan guerillas (page 34).
www.historyanswers.co.uk FACEBOOK TWITTER
/HistoryofWarMag
@HistoryofWarMag
TE Lawrence pictured at Amman
Aerodrome in 1921

3

003 HOW_029 Welcomenew.indd 3 04/05/2016 18:26