The Battle for Crete should have been an Allied victory. The problem, however, was the Allied high command.…
In our latest issue, we look at the transformation of warfare in the first half of the 16th century.…
On this episode of The PastCast, historian and teacher Graham Goodlad charts the military careers of the king and his heir, a…
How a new way of war led to an extraordinary victory…
The start of the Japanese blitzkrieg…
We chart the career of Alexander from Macedonia to the Indus, and analyse the Battle of Gaugamela, his greatest victory.…
Nelson had sought the battle for two years, and he knew full well what the outcome would be.…
The June/July 2021 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is…
The 115m-long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. Johnston led an attack…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…