The French Foreign Legion Museum In 1888 the French Foreign Legion was authorised to create a ‘Hall of Honour’ – a place…
Maureen Knopp from Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire was seven years old when the Second World War began. Here, she tells Susie Kearley…
The Untold History of the United States Fremantle Media International 1 July 2013 £19.99 ‘History is a pack of lies agreed upon’,…
The British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association (BLESMA) has existed since after the First World War, starting out as a network of those…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has picked…
The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that this month’s crossword grid is the same as issue 35! This was an oversight…
David Tattersfield assesses a failed attack on a crucial German salient during the Battle of the Somme.…
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…
