Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…
1916-1917: an infantry revolution 1916 was a year of great offensives – at Verdun and on the Somme – offensives made possible…
Martin Marix Evans explores the muddy terrain of the Third Battle of Ypres, the effects it had on the action, and what…
The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of…
Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly…
In the years 58-51 BC, Gaul was conquered and added to the Roman Empire through the military campaigns of Julius Caesar and his legions. For the first…
When the war began in 1566, Imperial Spain was the world’s greatest superpower. By the time it ended, in 1609, ‘the Spanish century’ was…
It was the culmination of ten years of increasingly violent unrest between supporters of King Henry VI and his cousin Richard, Duke…
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,…
Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism. During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…