What did a British Army soldier have with him while fighting in the trenches of the First World War? Here, Peter Doyle and…
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.…
What did a British Army soldier have with him while fighting in the trenches of the First World War? Here, Peter Doyle and…
‘War is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfil our will. War is an act of violence pushed to…
Anyone planning to wade through the vast outpouring of literature on the First World War might do well to make July Crisis…
In the many future wars between English and Scots, was the continuing independence of Scotland ever seriously in question.…
Bannockburn: Scotland’s crucial victory
Revanchist Republic: France prepares for war
Siege-Master: Vauban and France’s ‘Fatal Avenue’
Cracking Cassino: The Anzio Beachhead…
This year, as the nation marks the Centenary of the First World War, the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home (QAHH) in Worthing celebrates its 95th birthday. Over…
An MHM selection of some of the best events coming up over the next few months. War Music: notes from the First World War In the First…
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 Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield,…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the formation of the incoming Luftwaffe squadrons for the first attack on the…
The British Army emerged from the crisis of revolution and civil war that had given it birth with a distinctive military doctrine…
A map of Taranto Harbour on 11 November 1940, showing the position of the Italian ships, the habour defences, and the direction…
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,…
As every Scotsman knows, in 1314, at midsummer, the might of the English army came to grief in the boggy ground below…
The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…
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…
Isandlwana was perhaps the greatest defeat inflicted on the British redcoats by native warriors in imperial history. To read the full article, see…
In our Jutland — the combat experience feature this month, Peter Hart reconstructs the action of the battle using personal accounts of men…
Abandoned British position captured by the Germans This cold and desolate image shows an abandoned British trench following a German attack, with…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
This photograph shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…
In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…
Abandoned British position captured by the Germans This cold and desolate image shows an abandoned British trench following a German attack, with…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
This photograph shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…
In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…
Abandoned British position captured by the Germans This cold and desolate image shows an abandoned British trench following a German attack, with…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…