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Centre for War Studies Public Programme The Summer Day School Saturday, 23 June 2012 The Military Lessons of the Great War 1918-40 The final years of the Great War saw a radical change in the conduct of warfare. This Day School will examine how well the lessons of the Western Front were learnt over the [...]

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British Commission for Military History Summer Conference 2012 Call for Papers Indian Armies 20-22 July 2012 The British Commission for Military History’s 2012 summer conference will take place at Keble College, Oxford, from 20–22 July 2012. Proposals are invited from established scholars and doctoral researchers for papers of 20 minutes (c.200 words) on subjects related [...]

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This is an example of keeping an eye on journals that we may not necessarily look at. I would not normally have looked at Labour History Review because my research interests have meant I have never chosen to peruse its pages. However, on Thursday while have a quick look at new journals in the library [...]

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Brad Gladman, Intelligence and Anglo-American Air Support in World War Two: The Western Desert and Tunisia, 1940-43. London: Palgrave, 2009. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. pp. 252 Brad Gladman’s work represents an important addition to the historiography of tactical air power development in both the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Force. His [...]

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[Cross posted from Thoughts on Military History] Niall Barr, Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein. London: Pimilico, 2005. 576pp. Illustrations, Maps, Notes, Index. £10.99 (pbk) The Battle of El Alamein is hotly contested ground, not just between the protagonists themselves but also by the many authors who have tried to describe and [...]

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[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] Jonathan Bailey has written that the First World War was the time of a true revolution in military affairs with regards to the development of artillery firing.[1] One of the first major developments that took place was the creation and refinement of the ‘clock code’ system.[2] Using this system, a [...]

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Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany’s Greatest Battleship. Newbury: Casemate, 2009. 319pp, Illustrations, Maps, Notes, Index, £19.99 (Hbk) Reviewed by Ross Mahoney, PhD Candidate, Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham The story of the KMS Bismarck has all the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy. The Bismarck was the centrepiece [...]

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Revisiting Churchill’s Army: New Directions in the Study of the British Army in the Second World War A Symposium to be held at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham Friday 14 September 2012 1942 saw the British Army at its worst and at its best, with triumph at El Alamein following close upon [...]

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The next War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham is: Dr Jonathan Fennell (King’s College London) “We are ready NOW”: The Eighth Army and the War in North Africa, 1940-42 The event will be on 28 February 2012. The Seminar meets on TUESDAYS at 5.30 p.m. in Lecture [...]

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The next War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham is an Air Power Seminar and is being given by: Ross Mahoney (University of Birmingham) ‘Leadership Effectivness: Understanding a Key Metric of Operational Military History – The Case of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory‘ The event will be [...]

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