OT - Military History Magazine?

[Rhetor]

Hello All,

while waiting for the inevitable demise of the Royal Navy on my computer screen, I would really like to read something more about military history in general, preferably about 20th century warfare. Could anyone point me a good English-language military history magazine? Something similar to "North&South", maybe?

[mbv]

The only one I get occasionally in the UK is Military Illustrated. This tends to have a broad coverage from ancient to modern however and may not be to your taste. You can subscribe here ☞ MILITARY ILLUSTRATED - Magazine Subscriptions at Newsstand.co.uk (http://www.newsstand.co.uk/157-Military/2534-MILITARY-ILLUSTRATED.aspx) On that page you will also notice the magazine After the Battle which covers WWII and tends to focus on revisiting old battlefields by comparing original wartime photographs with the modern day scenery. Naval stuff appears occasionally in both of the above magazines.

[Bullethead]

In the US, there's a magazine with the same name as this thread: Military History Magazine. As such, I thought this thread was about an article in a recent issue of it :).

MHM is pretty much the same as Rhetor describes for his Brit MI magazine--mostly short blurbs on random military topics from ancient to modern times. It mainly focuses on land stuff, with a few articles on air and a rare one on naval ops. It tends to have articles mostly about US forces and their primary adversaries, and when big anniversaries come around of battles that were important to the US or Western civilization in general, there's usually a feature article on that.

I used to subscribe, until the current deplorable climate of political correctness made them stop having anything balanced to say about the War Between the States.

The site is here: militaryhistorymagazine.com (http://militaryhistorymagazine.com)

[PJJ]

The best military history magazine I know is the Journal of Military History, the quarterly journal of the Society for Military History. JMH is an academic publication, so the articles they publish are usually much better stuff than the "random blurbs" you see in popular magazines. JMH also has plenty of reviews of military history books, and I've found many interesting additions to my library based on these articles. I read JMH in the local university library, so I don't know if it's even available to individual subscribers.

[Rhetor]

The best military history magazine I know is the Journal of Military History, the quarterly journal of the Society for Military History. JMH is an academic publication, so the articles they publish are usually much better stuff than the "random blurbs" you see in popular magazines. JMH also has plenty of reviews of military history books, and I've found many interesting additions to my library based on these articles. I read JMH in the local university library, so I don't know if it's even available to individual subscribers.

Thank you All very much for your answers,

I shall try the JMH; perhaps the Library of Polish Navy Academy subscribes it. My University Library does not :-(

[Bullethead]

D'oh! Forgot something....

The US Naval Institute (publisher of many hardcover books we all know and love) also does a magazine called Proceedings. This is the professional journal and "trade magazine" of the USN, rather like the Russian Morskoy Sbornik (or however it's really spelled). These magainzes are totally naval in focus (although naturally including naval aviation and infantry) and deal almost exclusively with today's stuff. However, there's usually some naval history in them as well, to remind current readers of the glorious past. They're also expensive.

[Bullethead]

The best military history magazine I know is the Journal of Military History

Thanks for the tip :)