Known officially as the Infantry Tank Mark II, and less formally as the Matilda Senior or Matilda 2, this 27-ton tank wreaked…
In November 1854, The Times war correspondent William Russell, writing from the Crimea, reported that an attack by Russian cavalry had been…
The scourge of Stalingrad and perhaps the most exceptionally efficient sniper rifle of WWII, this deadly weapon was mass-produced in the Soviet…
Pen & Sword, £19.99 ISBN 978-1848841802 This book provides an analysis of intelligence gathering and implementation during the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879.…
Continuing our review of military classics, Military Times looks at A J P Taylor’s controversial publication on the causes of the Second…
The Command of the Air is the greatest military treatise on air war ever written – a dogmatic manifesto promising victory through…
Ian Murray Haynes Publishing, £25 ISBN 978-1844255887 Barnes Wallis came to the public’s attention with the release of The Dam Busters, the…
As every Scotsman knows, in 1314, at midsummer, the might of the English army came to grief in the boggy ground below…
In 1302, the townspeople of Flanders rebelled against the French, laying siege to the castle at Courtrai. The French sent an army…
Former infantry officer and military historian Mark Corby begs to differ with the result of the poll published in last month’s Military…