Mark Piesing
Mark Piesing, a freelance journalist based in Oxford, UK, was a finalist for Media Aviation Awards in both 2024 and 2025. He is author of N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia. Learn more at markpiesing.com or follow him @MarkPiesing.
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The grueling 1944–45 Allied offensive reopened the crucial overland supply route to China and dealt the Japanese army one of its worst defeats of the war.
Genocide and atomic weapons only tell part of the story.
World leaders. Generals. Industrialists. Strategists. Spies. See who had an outsized impact on the fate of the world.
These factors helped seal his triumph over the English king.
Military strategists weaponize fear, confusion and deception.
It ushered in the era of high-speed jet combat.
Uses have ranged from gunnery training to targeted killings.
