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The SAS and Tactical Intelligence: Normandy 1944 – Operation Haft 702
Full text linkAfter more than eighty years it is time to re-evaluate the role of the Special Air Service (SAS) and intelligence gathering during the Normandy campaign of 1944. This study examines Operation Haft 702 which ran between the Allied breakout in July and the closing of the Falaise pocket in August. The article combines original syntheses of archival research and landscape analysis to reveal a rich historical record which contributes to an understanding of how SAS human intelligence influenced the use of tactical airpower
Graeme J. Milne. Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860-1914
Full text linkEditorial: The Power and Potential of Case Studies in Art Therapy
Full text linkThis special issue of ATOL is dedicated to the case study — a foundational yet contested method that has shaped art therapy practice, education, and research. Case studies offer a unique lens into the therapeutic process, allowing for close observation of transference, symbolism, aesthetics, institutional influences, and relational dynamics. Case studies have served as a means for therapists to make sense of their work, connect theory with practice, and reflect deeply on the complexity of human experience.
Yet the method also raises important questions about bias, ethics, consent, and power. A therapist’s understanding is inevitably partial, and the potential to misrepresent or even harm clients remains a challenge. On the one hand, these are valid criticisms of the case study. On the other, we recognise its role in our learning and development as art therapists, as well as our deep, ongoing connection to it. It is these mixed feelings that inspired ATOL to create this special issue, inviting perspectives and reflections from the art therapy community on this enduring and contested form of writing
Decadence in Graphic Novels: An Introduction
Full text linkComics are an unlikely medium for decadence, as the industry in the West focused primarily on young people for most of its existence. Beginning in the late twentieth century, however, and expanding in the twenty-first, comics artists and writers in North America, Europe and Great Britain have pursued more mature topics, and with them have explored both the themes and the creators of decadent literature. This article offers an introduction to the strange flowering of decadence in comics, shedding light on works hitherto ignored in studies of decadence in literature and the arts. It covers five topics:
Adaptations of works by French decadent authors, and biographical works concerning those authors, including Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Jean Lorrain
Notable adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray, focusing on the 2008 version by the Spanish artist Corominas
The influence of symbolist art on comics artists, particularly on the American artist P. Craig Russell
Decadent narrative and linguistic tropes in 1970s horror comics published by Skywald
As a special case, the portrayal of Gabriele d’Annunzio in Italian fumetti, including both biographical works and those in which feature him as a secondary character
Decadent literature has not had much of an influence on the comics medium. However, through an exploration of these five topics, this article suggests different pathways for studying the reflection of decadent authors and styles in comics. Those reflections, though rare, are fascinating
Book Review: The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler’s War on Art By Charlie English (2021)
No full textAll books are written, published and read in a context, be this historical, cultural, political and/or personal. This being so, I begin my review of Charlie English’s important book with a personal preface
Introduction: Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War – Forgotten Locales, Transimperial Links, and Selective Memorialisation
Full text linkThis introduction explores the major contributions of the special issue in broadening understanding of captivity in the Asian and Pacific theatres during the Second World War. First, it decentralises national narratives, highlighting the transnational and diasporic identities of both military and civilian prisoners and the colonial and decolonialising contexts that shaped their experiences. Second, it foregrounds specific memories of wartime captivity that have been marginalised by dominant war narratives and post-war decolonial struggles. Lastly, it underscores the diverse experiences, institutions, and memory practices of captivity, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of wartime captivity and its memorialization
Transcolonial Carceralities: Memories of Algerian and Japanese Civilian Internment and Denaturalisation
Full text linkThis article examines the overseas French empire’s denaturalisation, civilian internment, and carceral policies vis-à-vis Algerians in North Africa and the Japanese in New Caledonia during and after the Second World War. Illuminating the histories of Algerian and Japanese civilian internment, this article analyses how overlapping, uneven colonial policies pertaining to incarceration spanning multiple empires produced complex settler-colonial entanglements with racial implications. This article reveals how multifarious colonial policies gesturing to a global, carceral, and colonial continuum against Algerians and Japanese reinforced parallels between diasporic and ideological movements from francophone North Africa to Oceania