The Renaissance is famous for its art. But it was not just a cultural revolution. It was an age of transformation that affected all aspects of life, including warfare.<\/p>\n
Our special this issue takes a close look at this strangely neglected period of military history. By the late 15th century, the crude head-to-head collisions characteristic of medieval battles were giving way to a new kind of war based on firepower, manoeuvre, and combined-arms operations.<\/p>\n
Much of it was experimental. It was a while before commanders mastered the tactics of the \u2018pike-and-shot\u2019 era. But that only makes it more fascinating: we bear witness to a military revolution in the making.<\/p>\n
Also this time, we have the second of John Lock\u2019s \u2018butterfly effect\u2019 articles, this time looking at how \u2018a few misplaced bombs\u2019 saved the RAF from defeat in the Battle of Britain. Continuing the Second World War theme, Taylor Downing, our regular film reviewer, takes us to \u2018Churchill\u2019s darkest hour\u2019 \u2013 not, it seems, 1940, but 1942, a doom-laden year that began with the fall of Singapore.<\/p>\n
Completing the issue, naval historian Michael Laramie describes \u2018the charge of the iron fleet\u2019 at Charleston in April 1863 \u2013 classic confrontation of shore batteries and ironclads \u2013 while archaeologist Euan Loarridge reports on a project that brings together professionals, students, and military veterans in an ongoing investigation of the battlefield of Waterloo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Churchill\u2019s darkest hour: the military disasters of 1942 - Renaissance warfare: a military revolution - Waterloo uncovered: veterans, archaeology, and the battlefield - The charge of the Iron Fleet: Charleston, 1863 - The Butterfly Effect: the accident that triggered the Blitz Plus: War Classics, Book Reviews, Museum Review, War on Film,…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentpublishing.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Renaissance warfare: a military revolution
\n– Waterloo uncovered: veterans, archaeology, and the battlefield
\n– The charge of the Iron Fleet: Charleston, 1863
\n– The Butterfly Effect: the accident that triggered the Blitz<\/p>\n