Gold, silver, and bronze prizes are up for grabs in the race for MHM Book of the Year, which will be awarded to the…
The making of Russia
The key battle that established the country as a major power.…
The key battle that established the country as a major power.…
Gold, silver, and bronze prizes are up for grabs in the race for MHM Book of the Year, which will be awarded to the…
The horror of the Thirty Years' War…
The conflict that made the reputation of perhaps the greatest of all British generals…
How Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas Fairfax formed a war-winning partnership…
The ballots have been cast, the votes have been counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book…
We analyse the achievements of Admiral 'ABC' Cunningham, and the battle that is widely regarded as his masterpiece.…
We offer an account of the epic conflict that saw Sparta triumph and which marked an end to Greece’s ‘Golden Age'…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
The British Army emerged from the crisis of revolution and civil war that had given it birth with a distinctive military doctrine…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map provides an overview of the locations of the major British and German squadrons, bombed…
Photojournalist Don McCullin’s images of war brought the grim reality onto Sunday breakfast tables for two decades . Especially famous are the…
In 1302, the townspeople of Flanders rebelled against the French, laying siege to the castle at Courtrai. The French sent an army…
Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…
The Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield,…
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,…
A map of Taranto Harbour on 11 November 1940, showing the position of the Italian ships, the habour defences, and the direction…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the route taken by Boudicca in preparation for her final battle. This map…
British trade routes were plagued by pirates during the 19th century, but where were the most dangerous and densely-populated pirate havens?…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…
In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…
The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history – involving 30 belligerent nations, it was fought from the far…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…
In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…
The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history – involving 30 belligerent nations, it was fought from the far…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…