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'The Few':
Brushes with Death
GAS!
R
THE MIGHTY
HOOD
Early Days of RN
Juggernaut & Battle
at Mers-el-Kebir
BRITAIN’S BEST SELLING MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
WEAPON
INFAMOUS
,
WW1
S MOST
SAMPLE
FREE DIGITAL
The RAF’s St
Valentine’s Day
Massacre
A County Reels After
The Somme
RMS Lusitania
Truths
PLUS:
HARRIER PILOT
RECOUNTS AIR RAID
Veteran Pilot Dave Morgan Tells of Runway
Strike on Stanley Air Base
ZEPPELIN
DOWNED
Legendary Raider
Downed in VC Action
16
TH
DURHAMS
AT BLOODY SALERNO
Gallant Durham Light Infantry In
Ferocious Invasion of Italy
From the
Editor...
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RITAIN AT WAR magazine is a specialist publication which deals with the history of all of Britain’s military conflicts and operations
from 1914 right up to the present day. This includes military operations since the Second World War - such as the Falklands, both
Gulf Wars and Afghanistan. As such, its style and content is unique in the overall genre of military history publications. So, whether
you have seen our magazine or not, we thought that you may like this free sample magazine compiled from features in some of our recent
issues.
Britain at War magazine has been published monthly since 2007 and offers a comprehensive range of subject material covering all elements
of conflict and warfare; this includes land, sea and air actions as well as the involvement of civilians on the Home Front. Each month we cover
world-wide news stories dealing with restorations, discoveries and events from around the world. The magazine has a team of regular writers
and specialist contributors and invites contributions on relevant subjects from prospective authors.
Our speciality is very much in telling the ‘untold’ stories of conflict, and from uniquely personal and human-interest perspectives, often
told in the first-person, and drawing upon photographs and images that have frequently not previously been seen in the public domain.
Additionally, many of our feature articles cover stories that have not previously been revealed or covered elsewhere.
We very much hope that you enjoy this sample issue!
Andy Saunders
(Editor)
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FEATURES
6 From Peace to War
Bruce Taylor details the origins of HMS
Hood,
charting her pre-war
days with the Royal Navy.
In the second of his features, Bruce Taylor continues the story of
the ‘Mighty Hood’, relating her involvement in Britain’s darkest
days of July 1940 and the Royal Navy’s attack on the French Fleet.
When two RAF Typhoon pilots set out on St Valentine’s Day in
1943 to provide air cover for a pair of MTBs in trouble off the
French coast they encountered trouble themselves. Mark Crame
tells the tragic story of a fatal engagement for the two young
fliers.
Martin Mace and John Grehan are granted rare access to the
Thiepval Memorial ahead of its recent renovation.
46 Gas! A Deadly Weapon?
12 Baptism of Fire
John Ash analyses the origins, usage and effectiveness of arguably
one of the most defining weapons of the First World War – Poison
Gas.
The sinking of RMS
Lusitania
has always been controversial and
Britain at War re-examined the facts of an infamous wartime
event. Was it a war crime — or a legitimate target?
56 One Long Scene of Agony
20 Valentine’s Day Engagement
64 Tank on Tour
Alexander Nicholl tracks the route of the mighty armoured beast
that was Britannia, an iron-clad ambassador sent to North
America to raise funds for the war effort against the
Central Powers.
32 Inside Thiepval
38 Four Men in a Boat
The astonishing story of four German spies who made a night-
time landing on the Kent coast at the height of
the Battle of Britain.
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Gas! A Deadly Weapon?
74 Inside the Avalanche – Salerno
Using first-hand interviews from the men of the 16
th
Durham Light
Infantry, Peter Hart reveals what it was like to be in the forefront
of action when the Allies landed at Salerno in September 1943.
In this dramatic account, Ian Castle tells the story of Lt William
Leefe Robinson’s VC action over South East England when he
famously became the first airman to down a German airship over
British soil.
Paul Reed details the harrowing tragedy which engulfed the Royal
Sussex Regiment on the eve of the Battle of the Somme, an
event which had a profound and lasting impact right across the
regiment’s home county.
Harrier pilot and Falklands veteran Dave Morgan describes his
part in a fast-paced and low-level strike against the heavily
defended Argentine-held air base at Stanley.
Dramatic brushes with death experienced by RAF pilots shot down
during the Battle of Britain are selected by Andy Saunders.
82 Zeppelin Down
94 The Day Sussex Died
104 Galtieri – My Part in His Downfall!
110 'You Left it a Bit Late'
COVER STORY
104
Galtieri – My Part in His Downfall!
BISMARCK3D.NETSTREFA.COM.PL),
ILLUSTRATION BY PIOTR FORKASIEWICZ
(INFO@PETERFOR.COM))
In this dramatic portrayal of firepower,
and of the might and pride of the
Royal Navy, HMS Hood fires a powerful
broadside during her fatal engagement
with Bismarck in the Battle of Denmark
Strait on 24 May 1941. Hit by shells
from Bismarck, Hood exploded and sank
with the loss of 1,415 men. Three days
later, after a long chase, Bismarck was
finally sank, taking some 2,000 men with
her.
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