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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
The Reacher Guy - Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, speaks to Britain at War about his post-war upbringing and the wartime experiences of his father and grandfather.
The Glamour Boys - A new book reveals the risks taken by gay British MPs in speaking out against Hitler and appeasement, reports Ella Braidwood.
Reputations: Admiral Sir William James - Jane Hall examines how the little boy from the Pears’ soap adverisement grew up to save the lives of 200,000 Allied troops and civilians.
Cover Story - We examine Britain’s role during the Korean War in a piece marking China’s entrance to the conflict.
A Country Divided - To mark the 70th anniversary of Chinas intervention in the Korean War, Melody Foreman examines Britain’s role in the forgotten conflict.
A Rare Individual - A masterful ambush was sprung by schoolboy-turned-hero Johnny Brunt VC, as Steve Snelling details in the first of a two-part feature.
Operation Pike: The One That Got Away - A risky Anglo-French plan had the potential to cripple both the Nazis and Soviets, but could it have worked? Steven Taylor investigates.
Sabotage, Spying and Subversion - An extraordinary one-legged SOE agent risked all in occupied France. Fiona Keating examines the daring exploits of Virginia Hall.
Lions Led by Donkeys - Jack Braham Levy evaluates the long-running debate that has shrouded the reputation of Douglas Haig and British generalship since the end of World War One.
An Unlikely Candidate - A new film titled A Call to Spy charts the unwavering resolve and sacrifice of Noor Inayat Khan, Britain’s most unlikely undercover agent.
Briefings:
‘Little Ship’ Restored - Two veterans reveal the lost Dunkirk history of a yacht revealed by their thorough restoration.
Reaching for the Sky - Jack Berry, 13, uses his talent for aviation art to help veterans’ charities.
Buried Among Kings - A new National Army Museum exhibition commemorates 100 years of Britain’s ‘Unknown Warrior’.
HERO of the MONTH:
Lord Ashcroft profiles the hostile action just off Gallipolis shore in which Petty Officer George McKenzie Samson VC was wounded 19 times.
Regulars:
Fieldpost
Image of War
Militaria
At Ease
Image of War
Weapons of War
Article Snippets
To mark the centenary of the Unknown Warrior’s final resting place in Westminster Abbey, we asked Justin Saddington, the National Army Museums curator of the exhibition Buried Among Kings, about why this symbolic memorial still resonates today.
Have you noticed how many war heroes have nicknames such as ‘Bunny’ ‘Winkle’ and ‘Sunshine’? Admiral Sir William Milbourne James, who masterminded the little-known Operation Aerial, was known from childhood as ‘Bubbles’. Find out why in ‘Reputations’ on page 34.
Our cover feature focuses on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. We speak to Ken Keld, who runs the northern branch of the British Korean Veterans Association. The article also includes an account of the Battle of Imjin, the bloodiest conflict taken on by the British Army since World War Two. The work of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), set up by Winston Churchill, is receiving much overdue attention these days. We explore the work of Allied spy Virginia Hall, a one-legged agent who was hunted, but never caught, by the Gestapo. There is also a moving tribute to perhaps the unlikeliest spy of all: Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim pacifist. A recently released film, A Call To Spy, features both Khan and Hall.
War poet Siegfried Sassoon figures in ‘Lions Led By Donkeys’, which reappraises the notion that all generals were incompetent asses. His cousin, Sir Philip Sassoon, was MP for Hythe from 1912 and Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Lloyd George in 1920. Sassoon is mentioned in our feature ‘The Glamour Boys’, which reveals the bravery of gay MPs who risked scandal and disgrace for speaking out against fascism.
We also have five copies of recently published The Glamour Boys by MP Chris Bryant to give away. For details, please visit www.keymilitary.com/britain-war/competitions
We’re looking to review readers’ personal collections in Britain at War. Email me if you have an item with an interesting history at Fiona.keating@keypublishing.com
Fiona Keating, Editor
Have you noticed how many war heroes have nicknames such as ‘Bunny’ ‘Winkle’ and ‘Sunshine’? Admiral Sir William Milbourne James, who masterminded the little-known Operation Aerial, was known from childhood as ‘Bubbles’. Find out why in ‘Reputations’ on page 34.
Our cover feature focuses on the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. We speak to Ken Keld, who runs the northern branch of the British Korean Veterans Association. The article also includes an account of the Battle of Imjin, the bloodiest conflict taken on by the British Army since World War Two. The work of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), set up by Winston Churchill, is receiving much overdue attention these days. We explore the work of Allied spy Virginia Hall, a one-legged agent who was hunted, but never caught, by the Gestapo. There is also a moving tribute to perhaps the unlikeliest spy of all: Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim pacifist. A recently released film, A Call To Spy, features both Khan and Hall.
War poet Siegfried Sassoon figures in ‘Lions Led By Donkeys’, which reappraises the notion that all generals were incompetent asses. His cousin, Sir Philip Sassoon, was MP for Hythe from 1912 and Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Lloyd George in 1920. Sassoon is mentioned in our feature ‘The Glamour Boys’, which reveals the bravery of gay MPs who risked scandal and disgrace for speaking out against fascism.
We also have five copies of recently published The Glamour Boys by MP Chris Bryant to give away. For details, please visit www.keymilitary.com/britain-war/competitions
We’re looking to review readers’ personal collections in Britain at War. Email me if you have an item with an interesting history at Fiona.keating@keypublishing.com
Fiona Keating, Editor
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