Born: 1 June 1907, Earlsdon, Coventry Occupation: RAF Engineer Officer Awards: KBE (1948), CBE (1944), CB (1947), Louis E. Levy Medal (1956), Order of Merit (1986),…
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.…
Born: 1 June 1907, Earlsdon, Coventry Occupation: RAF Engineer Officer Awards: KBE (1948), CBE (1944), CB (1947), Louis E. Levy Medal (1956), Order of Merit (1986),…
MHM highlights the benefits of becoming a member of military history societies.…
An MHM selection of some of the best events coming up over the next few months. BATTLE PROMS This is the year to…
In our article on the disastrous Dodecanese Campaign of 1943, Nick Hewitt explores how Britain managed, somehow, to snatch defeat from the…
Marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a new display of 59 portraits at the National Portrait Gallery aims to…
Hill 60 was a low rise south-east of Ypres made from the soil removed in digging a cutting for the Ypres to Comines railway. It…
Biography Born: April 22, 1904 New York Married: Katherine Puening Harrison in 1940 Fields: Theoretical physics Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, California…
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…
Martin Marix Evans explores the muddy terrain of the Third Battle of Ypres, the effects it had on the action, and what…
The possible routes taken by Olaf Guthfrithsson, King of Dublin, in this little known Viking battle for Britain…
Photojournalist Don McCullin’s images of war brought the grim reality onto Sunday breakfast tables for two decades . Especially famous are the…
In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of…
The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map provides an overview of the locations of the major British and German squadrons, bombed…
Two years of amateur warfare had changed nothing.The English Civil War remained in the balance. Then, in February 1645, Parliament created the New…
The struggle for supremacy between Britain and France dominated the History of the British Army from 1688 to 1815. the struggle began…
This map explains the movements of the French, British, and Prussian forces from the 15 to the 18 June, 1815. Napoleon seized…
1916-1917: an infantry revolution 1916 was a year of great offensives – at Verdun and on the Somme – offensives made possible…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…
This campaign of terror provoked an exodus – and the Biblical term is appropriate. The French government fled, soon followed by many…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…
This campaign of terror provoked an exodus – and the Biblical term is appropriate. The French government fled, soon followed by many…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…
It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…
Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…