History Today - September 2019

THE third and final issue of my cheap mini-subscription to History Today proved a very welcome surprise.
I found more-or-less the whole magazine interesting, including features on Himmler's obsession with 'witches', life on the Mississippi, punkahwallahs in British India and a Transylvanian enemy of the Habsburgs.

It's Himm again

It was particularly refreshing to find little of the nanny-ish PC mania that has been prevalent in the magazine recently.

Ancient Warfare - Jul/Aug 2019

ISSUE 1 of volume XIII of Ancient Warfare magazine is themed on "hired help from overseas - Hellenistic mercenary armies meddling in Magna Graecia," and is the best history and/or wargaming magazine I have read for a long time.

Ancient Warfare ... more than just a stab in the right direction

I found every article full of interest, with the notable exception of one supposedly on ancient combined arms, but in fact concentrating on modern combined arms (ominously, we are told it is the first part of a series - but maybe future parts will get round to actually discussing ancient warfare).

Soviet War Memorial

AM visiting the Czech Republic, and specifically Olomouc, a city that used to be a major centre of the Greater Moravian Empire.

No prizes for guessing which country erected this memorial, nor to which war it refers

As I believe can be seen from the picture, the memorial to the Red Army is still well maintained.