The August 2012 issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is still available to buy from us<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.currentpublishing.com\/subscriptions\/newcheckout.php?nosub&show_items<\/p>\n
In this issue we cover:<\/p>\n
The Mafia and the Allies<\/p>\n
Tim Newark argues that contrary to popular belief, the Americans did not do a deal with the Mafia in the 1943 Sicily Campaign.<\/p>\n
History of the British Army in 25 Battles – Delhi, 14-20 September 1857<\/p>\n
We explore how the British assault on Delhi, the turning point of the Indian Mutiny, was a close-run thing.<\/p>\n
British Volunteers in Spain – the Carlist Wars<\/p>\n
Jules Stewart recalls the service of British volunteers during the Carlist Wars in the first of this two-part series.<\/p>\n
Tank Busters<\/p>\n
David porter reports on how, after initial shock, the Germans learnt to deal with British and French tanks. <\/p>\n
Brunanburh – AD 937<\/p>\n
Jeffrey James details a ferocious battle in the far north against 10th-century invaders.<\/p>\n
Also in this issue: War Culture, Museum Review, War Zone, and Book Reviews.<\/p>\n
From the editor
\nNeil Faulkner, Editor\/n
\nWe lead this issue with an old controversy. It begins with the very different experiences of British and American forces during the first re-entry into Europe -the invasion of Sicily in July-August 1943.<\/p>\n
Montgomery’s 8th Army had a hard time fighting its way from hill to town to defended bridgehead up the east coast of the island. It came to a virtual halt in prolonged fighting in the urban sprawl of Catania as it was funnelled between Mount Etna and the sea.<\/p>\n
Patton’s US 7th Army, by contrast, stormed across the centre of the island, occupied Palermo, and then swept east to reach Messina on the far north-eastern tip of the island just ahead of the 8th Army. ‘Where’ve you tourists been?’ was the tactless question to the ‘late’ arrivals.<\/p>\n
Monty’s men had found themselves fighting a lot of Germans, Patton’s mainly Italians. A good proportion of the Italians, moreover, were Sicilians, most of whom seem to have disappeared to their homes at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n
Western Sicily was (and is) the home of the Sicilian Mafia. The minimal resistance the Americans faced has long been attributed to a deal done with the jailed US Mafia boss Lucky Luciano.<\/p>\n
What is certainly true is that the US helped the Mafia back into power from 1943 onwards, using them as a fist to knock back a radical peasant land-reform movement linked to the Communist Party immediately after the war.<\/p>\n
But that is not the same as cutting a deal during the war to ensure mass desertion by Sicilian troops. And it would hardly have been necessary. Italian Fascism was a spent force. The great majority of Italians wanted an end to the war -and the regime that had caused it.<\/p>\n
Crime and military historian Tim Newark is convinced the wartime deal never happened. We publish a key extract from his recent book The Mafia at War offering a very different interpretation of events in remote central Sicily in July 1943.<\/p>\n
We also have an analysis of German anti-tank tactics in the First World, an account of British volunteers’ service in the little-known 19th century Carlist Wars, a description of the 1857 storming of Delhi in our British battles series, and a reconstruction of a major Dark Age battle to prevent a Viking takeover of the North in the 10th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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