This is the first UK showing of Nick Danziger’s Eleven Women Facing War, a powerful exhibition about gender and conflict in 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.…
This is the first UK showing of Nick Danziger’s Eleven Women Facing War, a powerful exhibition about gender and conflict in the…
A promotion of some of the best events coming up over the next few months.…
There are a select number of battlefield tours that every military history enthusiast should experience. Here is a promotion of the finest,…
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…
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,…
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 possible routes taken by Olaf Guthfrithsson, King of Dublin, in this little known Viking battle for Britain…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…
The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…
The Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield,…
When the war began in 1566, Imperial Spain was the world’s greatest superpower. By the time it ended, in 1609, ‘the Spanish century’ was…
The British Army emerged from the crisis of revolution and civil war that had given it birth with a distinctive military doctrine…
The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of…
Two years of amateur warfare had changed nothing.The English Civil War remained in the balance. Then, in February 1645, Parliament created the New…
James Wolfes’ victory at Quebec gave the British dominion over North American. It was the victory of an army forced to adapt…
Map of the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army of…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
This campaign of terror provoked an exodus – and the Biblical term is appropriate. The French government fled, soon followed by many…
Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…
Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
This campaign of terror provoked an exodus – and the Biblical term is appropriate. The French government fled, soon followed by many…
Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…
Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…