The September issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is on sale today.<\/p>\n
In the latest issue we cover:<\/p>\n
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
\nWith a focus on the Battle of Adrianople, the conflict that brought about the end of the ancient world, MHM dissects the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
The Devil’s Guard – SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger
\nRafe McGregor uncovers the horrifying history of one the most notorious military units ever formed.<\/p>\n
Desperate Defence – Le Cateau, 1914
\nPatrick Mercer on the BEF’s Wellingtonian masterpiece at the Battle of Le Cateau.<\/p>\n
Under Fire – French Poilus in the trenches, 1915
\nMatt Leonard explores the background of Henri Barbusse’s novel Le Feu, first published in 1916.<\/p>\n
Also in this issue: Behind the Image, Thinkers at War, War Culture, Book of the Month, Museum Review, War on Film, Event Listings, Competition, and much more.<\/p>\n
From the editor
\n Neil Faulkner, Editor<\/p>\n
Our special feature this issue focuses on the Battle of Adrianople in AD 378. It has often been compared with Cannae: a battle of annihilation in which an entire Roman army was destroyed.<\/p>\n
In fact, Adrianople was more decisive. The Romans recovered from Cannae. They simply built a new army. Indeed, such were their manpower reserves in 216 BC that they could have survived several defeats on this scale.<\/p>\n
But in AD 378, the age of the mass citizen levy was long gone. The empire had become an edifice of state power resting on a foundation of exploited provincial labour. The soldiers were a small professional elite.<\/p>\n
The losses at Adrianople had to be made good, of course. But this was done by recruiting barbarian ‘federates’ -Germanic tribal contingents fighting under their own chieftains and hired en masse. Thus did Rome in decline create the agents of its own destruction.<\/p>\n
Adrianople was also a turning-point in the history of war: the moment when the heavy infantry of antiquity were finally displaced by the heavy horse of an embryonic medieval order.<\/p>\n
Patrick Mercer takes a hard look at another turning-point with his article on Le Cateau, the desperate defensive battle fought by the British Expeditionary Force on 26 August 1914. A battle in the style of Wellington, it was also the swansong of the old 19th-century Regular Army.<\/p>\n
Matt Leonard continues the First World War theme with a discussion of Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu, and Rafe McGregor investigates the infamous career of Oskar Dirlewanger and his SS Sonderkommando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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