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HISTORY Contributors

of
WAR is a multi-award-winning
ANTONY BEEVOR

historian and author of

ten non-fiction titles. He

served for five years as

an Officer with the 11th
Hussars and is a visiting
Professor at the School
of History, Classics and
Archaeology at Birkbeck,
University of London.
Welcome is a Distinguished Professor
ANDREW WIEST
of History and the founding
for the Study of War and
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that have been fought over the millennia. and appeared on both
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Why launch a magazine about war right correspondent covering
now? No one could have failed to notice that 2014 marks the centenary various wars across the
of the beginning of the First World War, but it’s also the 75th anniversary Far and Middle East, as
of the start of the Second World War. In this issue, we take an in-depth well as Africa. He was
look at how Germany invaded Europe in 1914, utilising its Schlieffen recently the European
Plan (page 16), and examine the titanic struggle in the Far East when the Editor of the Sunday Times
US fought the Japanese in the Philippines and on Iwo Jima in one of the and has written several
books, including three
bloodiest battles of WWII (page 50). But there is so much more to the on Russian history.
history of combat than the aforementioned confl icts. We will be covering
wars from around the globe and throughout time; in this issue, we look at
Alexander’s victory at Gaugamela, Rome’s Generals, the best Vietnam War BEN MACINTYRE
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