There can have been few sights as frightful as the dull gaze of the 32 pounders of a ship’s broadside as it…
Military Classics: Jeremy Isaacs’ The World at War (1973) Military Times reviews the classic award-winning TV documentary series, about to be reissued…
The Diehards: The 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (now part of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment) Nothing could exceed the conduct and…
Military Times revisits the bizarre WWII invention of Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Behavioural analyst, author, innovator, poet, social philosopher, and Harvard professor of…
Obsolete it may have been, but the Fairey Swordfish remained in front-line service throughout the Second World War, distinguishing itself as the…
The Royal Scots Greys: The regiment that caught the French Eagle. The image of the Scots Greys charging out of the picture…
A series of German World War II propaganda leaflets have come light, after being put on sale by private collectors. It is…
Michael Seifert, a Nazi war criminal known as the ‘Beast of Bolzano’, has died aged 86 in an Italian hospital, where he…
UCL’s Gabe Moshenska muses on the extraordinary iconic significance of the gas mask. My particular object of interest is the ‘General Civilian…
Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Andrew Browne Cunningham described by his biographer, John Winton, as ‘the greatest admiral since…