Britain At War September Issue – OUT NOW!

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MASSACRE OF THE MUNSTERS
As the BEF continued its withdrawal in August 1914, command of I Corps’ rearguard was handed to Brigadier-General Ivor Maxse’s Brigade, which included the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.

TRAPPED
Seventy years ago this month, the British 1st Airborne Division had landed to the west of Arnhem. The division’s commander, Major General Roy Urquhart, soon found himself stranded.

LEFT BEHIND
Chris Goss presents a selection of images depicting some RAF fighters that were shot down or abandoned during the Battle of France.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
The remarkable story of a how a note written to the editor of the Daily Mirror in August 1914 was thrown overboard in the English Channel.

THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS GOES TO WAR
Stuart Hadaway relates how the RFC prepared for war in 1914.

THE DAY THEY BOMBED THE STATION
One date stands out in the history of Middlesbrough in the Second World War – 3 August 1942. The target, as Bill Norman describes, was the town’s Railway Station.

HEROES IN DISGUISE
Steve Snelling charts the story of one of the most remarkable sea duels of the First World War – an epic encounter between a British Q-ship and a German U-boat.

THE HIDDEN SECRET OF THE HUMBIE HEINKEL
In the case of the very first enemy aircraft to come down intact on the mainland of the British Isles in the Second World War, a highly significant discovery was made by RAF investigators – albeit one that had initially been overlooked.

THE NETTLETON ROOM
Twenty-one years ago the main briefing room at RAF Waddington was dedicated as “The Nettleton Room”. Andrew Thomas explains the background to the ceremony.

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