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After The Battle, Issue 115

The main feature of this issue is The Battle of The Mons Pocket which accounts for the first 33 pages.  In the first days of September 1944 the US first army surrounded a large force of fleeing German troops in a pocket around and south of the Belgian border town of Mons – the very battlefield of the first great battle of World War I.  Neither the Americans nor the Germans expected it to happen as it did, but Mons developed into a very costly battle for the Wehrmacht.  In a matter of three days, the Americans annihilated the pocket, destroying masses of vehicles and capturing about 250,000 prisoners, remnants of some 20 disorganised divisions.  This well researched and detailed account outlines the units and tactics deployed by the opposing forces.  A wealth of period photographs interspersed with more recent illustrations typify the “Then and Now” format used by this publication.

In November 2001, the Imperial War Museum announced the launch of a new database and archive The UK National Inventory of War Memorials (UKNIWM).  It is a groundbreaking and successful partnership between major public institutions, a dedicated nationwide network of volunteers and generous sponsors and is jointly administered by the Imperial War Museum and English Heritage.  Since 1989 UKNIWM’s volunteers have carried out thousands of detailed site surveys, taking photographs and delving into their local archives, to put together as comprehensive picture as possible of how their communities remembered their war dead.  This article details some of the work and a short history is given for some of the memorials.

This issue contains 56 pages of well researched Second World War military history much of which is presented in the familiar “Then and Now” format for which this publication is famous.

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