Military History - Standard Edition
Pros:
Interesting topics, large interview in each issue, interesting columns.
Cons:
Somewhat poor balance of article focus
The Bottom Line:
A solid, meat and potatoes magazine for military history buffs.
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Author's Review
Military History is a bimonthly magazine that covers military history from the Hellenistic period to the 1980s. Each issue usually contains two to four main stories that cover battles or campaigns. In addition to these articles, there is an extensive interview article with a soldier from WWI, WWII, Korea, or Vietnam and several columns which cover military weaponry, intrigue, individual soldiers histories, a section entitled Best Little Stories and reviews of contemporary military / history books and computer games.
The magazine itself is generally well done, with numerous pictures and paintings. The columns and articles are interesting and well researched, though they are somewhat polyglot it is common to find pieces discussing the Crimean War and the Pelopenesian War in the same issue. However, the magazines main issues are weighted slightly towards the American Civil War, WWI and WWII and the Napoleonic Era though more esoteric articles are also published, such as those covering the military campaigns of Alexander the Great, or the Suez Crisis, or the battle of Lutzen.
The result of this breadth of articles is mixed, while there is something in every article to interest everyone, not everything will interest everyone, though the significance of this issue is obviously very subjunctive. For those interested in specific periods of military history, this is not the magazine for them. However, for those who have a wide range of interests and do not have the time or the money to purchase several magazines, Military History largely serves as an effective stopgap.
