After being posted to the Adazi Training Area in Latvia to cover a training event, Tom Bourke discovered a treasure trove of…
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.…
After being posted to the Adazi Training Area in Latvia to cover a training event, Tom Bourke discovered a treasure trove of…
What did cricket mean to troops and civilians during WWII? Crispin Andrews has scoured the MCC library to find out. Even Hitler…
How will you be commemorating the anniversary of the First World War? We are kicking off our Centenary Season – MHM’s WWI…
Continuing our regular feature profiling military charities, MHM focuses on a 96-year-old organisation dedicated to rehabilitating disabled ex-soldiers. For nearly 100 years…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM…
In an extract from his new book Fred’s War, Andrew Davidson captures the chaotic career of his medical officer grandfather Fred who…
German Cartoonists of the Nazi Era, 1933-1945 Mark Bryant looks at those elusive masters of Nazi propaganda, the German cartoonists of the…
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…
As every Scotsman knows, in 1314, at midsummer, the might of the English army came to grief in the boggy ground below…
The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…
The British Army emerged from the crisis of revolution and civil war that had given it birth with a distinctive military doctrine…
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…
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…
Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly…
The War of the Austrian Succession found the British Army run down and neglected, its proud military traditions grown sclerotic. Yet in…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
This image exudes orderliness and power. Strong horizontals, emphasised by the landscape format, suggest stability and a sense of balance. Much like…
Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
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…
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 shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
This image exudes orderliness and power. Strong horizontals, emphasised by the landscape format, suggest stability and a sense of balance. Much like…
Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
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…
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 shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…
As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…
The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…
The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…
This image exudes orderliness and power. Strong horizontals, emphasised by the landscape format, suggest stability and a sense of balance. Much like…
Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…