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…
Gervase Phillips reports on the vital role of the ‘pigeon post’ amid Passchendaele’s waterlogged crater-fields. For Major Alec Waley, the commanding officer…
As the years draw on, the events of the First World War slowly fade from living memory. Scattered across the globe, the…
The war devastated Vietnam and tore America apart. As the body bags returned home in their thousands, US generals – who once…
The bloody end met by Mary Queen of Scots at the hands of her cousin Elizabeth I of England is well known.…
How did the Russian Civil War betray a popular revolution? MHM Editor Neil Faulkner assesses the historical significance of the conflict. It…
Why did the British fight the Third Battle of Ypres? MHM editor Neil Faulkner analyses the background to Haig’s offensive in Flanders…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…