Taylor Downing regularly contributes articles, features and reviews to magazines, journals and papers. He writes a monthly feature on classic war films for Military History Monthly:
Recent articles include:
The Saturday Telegraph
A feature on shell shock in World War One to mark the publication of Breakdown
History Today
Taylor is a regular contributor and reviewer for History Today and is a judge of the Longmans/History Today annual Book Prize.
Previous features include:
History Today
The Great War - a feature on the making of the epic 1964 BBC television series
History Today
Scientists in Uniform - the WW1 exploits of Nobel prize winner William Lawrence Bragg
History Today
The World at War - a feature on the making of the great television series
The Saturday Telegraph
A feature on shell shock in World War One to mark the publication of Breakdown
History Today
Taylor is a regular contributor and reviewer for History Today and is a judge of the Longmans/History Today annual Book Prize.
Previous features include:
History Today
The Great War - a feature on the making of the epic 1964 BBC television series
History Today
Scientists in Uniform - the WW1 exploits of Nobel prize winner William Lawrence Bragg
History Today
The World at War - a feature on the making of the great television series
Military History Monthly
A regular feature called 'War on Film' telling the story of the making of some classic war movies,
including:
Bridge on the River Kwai
Schindler's List
Zulu
Battle of the Bulge
Culloden
Henry V
Rome, Open City
Dunkirk
M.A.S.H.
The Hurt Locker
Catch 22
Saving Private Ryan and other D-Day films like The Longest Day and Overlord
Napoleon
Memphis Belle
A Farewell To Arms
La Grande Illusion
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory
Regeneration
Aces High
Dr Strangelove
The Cruel Sea
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
School for Secrets
The Man Who Never Was
The Dam Busters
The FIrst of the Few
In Which We Serve
And many, many more...
Past and Future - Institute of Historical Research
Televising History
Military History Monthly
A feature on the Bruneval Raid of Feb 1942
The Sunday Times Colour Magazine
How aerial intelligence helped win the war, August 2011
Recent reviews by Taylor Downing feature the following books:
James Holland Sicily '43 for Military
Daniel Siemens, Stormtroopers for Military History Monthly
Rodric Braithwaite, Armageddon and Paranoia for History Today
Lynne Olson, Last Hope Island for Military HIstory Monthly
Richard Dannatt, Boots on the Ground for Military History Monthly
Sarah Helm, If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück
for History Today
James Wyllie and Michael McKinley, The Codebreakers for History Today
Alban Webb London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War for History Today
Ben Urwand The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler for History Today
Calder Walton Empire of Secrets for History Today
Luke McKernan Charles Urban for History Today
Richard Toye The Roar of the Lion for History Today
Sinclair McKay The Secret Listeners for Military History Monthly
Clive Aslet War Memorial for Military History Monthly
Christine Halsell Women of Intelligence for History Today
Ian Senior Home Before the Leaves Fall for Military History Monthly
David Edgerton Britain’s War Machine for History Today
And many, many more...
The Observer Magazine
The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator’s private life
(with Robert McCrum)
Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler’s private life with her cine-camera…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/27/hitler-home-movies-eva-braun?INTCMP=SRCH
The Journal of British Cinema and Television Vol 10
The Cold War – A Personal View
‘The trouble with the Cold war is that nothing really happened.’ These were the words of one of the leading TV commissioning editors of history programmes…
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/jbctv
History Today
From the Archive – RAF Films: On Record, Off Target
The RAF’s actions as they were depicted in popular culture, particularly in the films of the day, bore little resemblance to what it was doing…
