Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red…
The Grande Armée was something new. ‘We used to have the Army of Italy, of the Rhine, of Holland,’ explained Napoleon himself.…
One of the key questions often asked about Leni Riefenstahl is was she Hitler’s lover? Rumours of an affair were common at…
The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…
Henry's conduct of the battle was routine: he formed his line in conformity with established English practice, and his tactics were those…
This massive foreign involvement lends credibility to the claim of Manuel Chaves Nogales, a leading Spanish journalit in Madrid during the siege,…
‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
To mark Anzac Day 2015, MHM reposts Peter Hart's action-packed article taking us into the inferno of the Gallipoli landings.…