Military History Matters has curated a list of 2022’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards.…
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.…
Military History Matters has curated a list of 2022’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards.…
Military History Matters has curated a list of 2022’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards.…
In our latest issue, we trace the complex history of the Spanish Civil War, and examine the bloodiest engagement of the conflict…
The Red Army (later known as the Soviet Army) would grow to become one of history’s most feared fighting forces.…
Historian Robert Kershaw argues that the lack of a German perspective means we have only a partial understanding of the ‘miracle of…
On this episode of The PastCast, historian Geoffrey Parker, co-author of a major new history on the doomed campaign, explains what really…
We assesses the life and career of Britain’s best-known and most controversial military commander of the Second World War.…
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…
It was the culmination of ten years of increasingly violent unrest between supporters of King Henry VI and his cousin Richard, Duke…
In 1302, the townspeople of Flanders rebelled against the French, laying siege to the castle at Courtrai. The French sent an army…
The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects…
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…
1916-1917: an infantry revolution 1916 was a year of great offensives – at Verdun and on the Somme – offensives made possible…
British trade routes were plagued by pirates during the 19th century, but where were the most dangerous and densely-populated pirate havens?…
In our Jutland — the combat experience feature this month, Peter Hart reconstructs the action of the battle using personal accounts of men…
The Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield,…
Martin Marix Evans explores the muddy terrain of the Third Battle of Ypres, the effects it had on the action, and what…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
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 Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history – involving 30 belligerent nations, it was fought from the far…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
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 Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history – involving 30 belligerent nations, it was fought from the far…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…