Iain King takes a hard look at how the First World War turned Hitler into a Fascist. The ‘Great War’ had a…
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.…
Iain King takes a hard look at how the First World War turned Hitler into a Fascist. The ‘Great War’ had a…
It is 1799. After a decade of political turmoil, more than 40,000 executions and a brief but bloody Reign of Terror, France…
The War that Ended Peace: how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War Margaret MacMillan Profile Books, £25 ISBN 978-1846682728 Margaret…
Richard Bevan takes a look at a selection of war films, some of which are unlikely to win any awards for historical…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King begins a new series looking at how great thinkers were shaped by war. He begins with Socrates, the…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has picked…
Find my past Discover the new Royal Tank Corps Enlistment Records, 1919-1946, on find my past. This amazing collection is the largest set of…
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…
James Wolfes’ victory at Quebec gave the British dominion over North American. It was the victory of an army forced to adapt…
Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly…
Photojournalist Don McCullin’s images of war brought the grim reality onto Sunday breakfast tables for two decades . Especially famous are the…
Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism. During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…
Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…
The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of…
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…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map provides an overview of the locations of the major British and German squadrons, bombed…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…
This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red…
In May 1944, an official document was prepared by Jürgen Stroop detailing the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. The 75-page report was…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
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…
Belgian Carabiniers with dog-drawn heavy machine-gun, 1914 Marching toward the camera, and shot from a low angle, these Belgian Carabiniers are given…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…
This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red…
In May 1944, an official document was prepared by Jürgen Stroop detailing the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. The 75-page report was…
This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
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…
Belgian Carabiniers with dog-drawn heavy machine-gun, 1914 Marching toward the camera, and shot from a low angle, these Belgian Carabiniers are given…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…