‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…
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.…
‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…
To mark Anzac Day 2015, MHM reposts Peter Hart's action-packed article taking us into the inferno of the Gallipoli landings.…
In the years 58-51 BC, Gaul was conquered and added to the Roman Empire through the military campaigns of Julius Caesar and his legions. For the first…
The sinking of the Lusitania has gone down in history as the most notorious U-boat attack of the First World War. Here, MHM takes a…
An MHM selection of some of the best events coming up over the next few months, from exhibitions and anniversaries, right through…
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, MHM takes a look at some of the books and tours…
MHM looks at the innovative designs in military sidecars since 1914, including the Scott Mobile Machine Gun, and the Watsonian Sidecar…
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…
Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism. During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…
Martin Marix Evans explores the muddy terrain of the Third Battle of Ypres, the effects it had on the action, and what…
The lines of the Torres Vedras were lines of forts secretly built by the British from around September 1809-1812 to protect Lisbon…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map provides an overview of the locations of the major British and German squadrons, bombed…
Map of the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army 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…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…
In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of…
The War of the Austrian Succession found the British Army run down and neglected, its proud military traditions grown sclerotic. Yet in…
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
On 11 November 1920, one of the largest funerals ever held in London took place – and yet the deceased was a…
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…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
On 11 November 1920, one of the largest funerals ever held in London took place – and yet the deceased was a…
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…
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…