Author Archives: Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Zita is the editor of both Military History Quarterly and Vietnam Magazine. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in military history. She received an award from the National Federation of Press Women in 2022 for her editing work on Vietnam Magazine. She has written numerous military history books, articles and book reviews and is also an award-winning author. Her book “Bernard Montgomery’s Art of War” won a Silver Medal from the Military Writers Society of America. She is fluent in German and is a member of the U.K. Military Historical Society. Her areas of interest include the Vietnam War and World Wars I and II, with a focus on Great Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe.

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Revenge on the Rhine: How Rome Got Even After the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

by Tacitus, Jerry D. Morelock and Zita Ballinger Fletcher4/3/20234/3/2023

When A Spaghetti Tree Hoax Caused A Nationwide Uproar

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher4/1/20233/31/2023

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This Photographer Went Around the World to Capture Every Single WWI Battle. Here Are His Photos.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/21/20233/21/2023

World War II’s Desert Victory At El Alamein—In Stamps

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/7/20233/7/2023

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20236/28/2023

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They Say He Burned Down the Reichstag. But Was He Drugged Into Confessing?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/1/20233/2/2023

They Had to Bomb North Vietnam — Around The Dotted Lines

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/14/20232/14/2023

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War is Hell…on the Environment

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/14/20232/14/2023

One Family, 10 Sieges: How Spain’s Guzman Family Spent Centuries Battling For Gibraltar

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/6/20235/22/2023

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How W.Britain Has Been Making Model Soldiers—For 130 Years

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/26/20231/26/2023