Over the year to come, MHM will be marking the 80th anniversaries of some of the epic battles \u2013 from D-Day onwards \u2013 which together made 1944 the decisive year of the Second World War in the West.<\/p>\n
In this issue, however, we are reminded of the conflict\u2019s global reach, as we look back on another crucial engagement in that year, which would also change the course of the war \u2013 but which took place thousands of miles from the Western Front.<\/p>\n
In our two -part special feature for this issue, Graham Goodlad analyses the Battle of Imphal and Kohima \u2013 considered by many to be the \u2018Stalingrad of the East\u2019 \u2013 and profiles Bill Slim, the inspirational commander who led his \u2018Forgotten Army\u2019 of British and Commonwealth troops to victory on the India\u2013Burma border.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, our military technology expert David Porter investigates the development of the Kaiser\u2019s U-boats during World War I, and reveals how this new submarine threat changed the rules of naval warfare.<\/p>\n
Also in this issue, Duncan Cameron travels further back in time to understand how repeated attempts by France to invade England at the end of the 14th century came to end in failure; while William E Welsh examines the 1870 Battle of Mars-la-Tour, famous as the site of perhaps the last successful cavalry charge in Western European warfare.<\/p>\n
And finally, Taylor Downing continues his fascinating ser ies on the use of deception in World War II by telling the extraordinary story of the double agents Brutus and Garbo, and MI5\u2019s top – secret XX Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n – Burma \u201944: was Imphal and Kohima Britain\u2019s greatest victory?
\n– The last charge: Von Bredow\u2019s \u2018Death Ride\u2019, 1870
\n– The Kaiser\u2019s U-boats: Germany\u2019s submarine threat
\n– 1385 and all that: the failed French invasions
\n– The spies who never were: double agents Brutus and Garbo<\/p>\n