Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History at King’s College London, has been described as ‘the outstanding British naval historian of his…
The Cuban Revolution of January 1959, the Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962…
Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…
MHM Editor Neil Faulkner reviews Ken Burns’ new 18-hour blockbuster The Vietnam War, and compares it to three other great TV war documentaries…
Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent during the Second World War.…
We know the story. Goaded into a hopeless war by an expanding colonial empire, thousands of warriors rise against their oppressors –…
War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the…
Could the Germans have won the First World War in 1918? Almost certainly. A quarter of a century later, the tide of war…
'Easily the bloodiest single battle fought in the war.' Mark Bowden, the journalist and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and Killing…
What is the role of the individual in history? The collaboration between Robert E Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson changed the course…