Articles Here is a selection of some of my military history articles. You can find more of my work here. Why We Need The ‘Great Men’ Of History How Erwin Rommel Has Been Lost in Translation What Historians Get Wrong About Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery Bob Hope’s Daughter Reflects On His World War II Letters Montgomery Was One of World War II’s Best Leaders. Here Is Why They Say He Burned Down the Reichstag. But Was He Drugged Into Confessing? A Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipient Shares Leadership Lessons An Inside Look at Medieval Horse Armor How the British Cared for Military Animals During WWI Command and Control in the Roman Army Paul Morando: Telling the Soldier’s Story What it Was Like to March in the Procession for Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 Coronation The Wipers Times: British Humor in the Trenches When a WWI German Zeppelin Tried to Bomb Edinburgh Castle — and Missed Irish SAS Hero: Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne This British Policeman Trained Commandos In the Art of ‘Ungentlemanly Warfare’ The White Rose Revisited: How These Brave Young Germans Used Culture to Fight Hitler Why Were Australian Vietnam Veterans Treated Shamefully? Viking ‘Bear’ Naked Warriors: A Closer Look at Berserkers How Gustav the Pigeon Broke the First News of the D-Day Landings Why Symbols Were Essential To Battle Shields