Barnes Wallis was one such man. A brilliant aircraft designer with a flair for what we in the 21st-century would glibly call…
Building the Sherman Tank In 1940, in the light of the successful use of panzers in the European war, the US Army decided to start…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
Graham Goodlad reviews the career of Tomoyuki Yamashita, ‘the Tiger of Malaya’, who was responsible for the fall of Singapore in 1942.…
The campaign resulted in one of the most decisive victories of the First World War. Here, we take a look at five…
On 13 December 1939, while Britain was living through a ‘Phoney War’ at home, in the waters off the River Plate a…
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,…
MHM places D-Day within the context of Operation Overlord, picking out some of the most brutal clashes and key events, from…
Taylor Downing takes a look at how 1960s Hollywood dealt with one of the most important days of the Second World War.…
Taylor Downing remembers Stuart Cooper’s ground-breaking 1975 World War II film. Stuart Cooper’s film Overlord (1975) is the only feature film ever…