The September issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale.
\nIn this issue we cover:
\nThe Spanish-American War, 1898
\nFred Chiaventone assesses the war’s causes and its course, while Patrick Boniface provides a detailed analysis of the conflict’s trigger: the blowing up of the USS Maine.<\/p>\n
Includes:<\/p>\n
– Background
\n– Map
\n– USS Maine
\n– Battles<\/p>\n
The Batavians: a Roman military elite
\nMHM Editor Neil Faulkner explores the history of one of the world’s most formidable contingents of shock troops.<\/p>\n
The Darker Side of Victory: Wellington’s medical service at Waterloo
\nMick Crumplin takes us into the grisly world of Napoleonic-era treatment of casualties.<\/p>\n
Regiment: The First Special Service Force in the Italian Campaign of WWII
\nPatrick Mercer recalls the achievements of an elite American-Canadian special-forces unit.<\/p>\n
Also in this issue: Behind the Image; War Culture; War Composers; War on Film; Book of the Month; Book Reviews; Museum Review; Event Listings; Competitions; and much more.<\/p>\n
From the editor
\n MHM Editor Dr Neil Faulkner<\/p>\n
The colonial wars of the half-century before the First World War often pitted small European expeditionary forces against pre-modern native armies like the Zulus or the Dervishes. Occasionally, they involved clashes between European regulars and European settlers; the two Boer Wars are obvious examples. Direct clashes between rival imperial powers, however, were rare.<\/p>\n
Such was the Spanish American War of 1898, the subject of our special this time. It was a struggle between the Old World and the New, between a declining European empire and an emerging global colossus -between, that is, Spain, defending old colonies in South-East Asia and the Caribbean, and the United States, beginning to carve out a role in the wider world at the end of a century dominated by westward expansion.<\/p>\n
US military historian Fred Chiaventone analyses the causes and the conduct of the war, while naval historian Patrick Boniface takes a close look at the trigger, the mysterious explosion that destroyed the USS Maine in Havana Harbour on 2 February 1898.<\/p>\n
Then we take a sideways look at Waterloo, with Mick Crumplin’s survey of the grisly business of tending to the casualties (55,000 of them in an area of about four square miles) -complete with contemporary illustrations of amputation techniques that are not for the squeamish!<\/p>\n
Patrick Mercer continues our Regiment series with a close look at the First Special Service Force in the Italian Campaign of WWII, and then we have an in-house piece on the Batavians, the amphibious warfare specialists and elite auxiliary shock troops of the Roman Imperial Army in the 1st century AD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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