Eric Bryan examines one of the most fearsome machines of WWII. Germany’s advanced WWII war machinery included intercontinental ballistic missiles (the V-2),…
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.…
Eric Bryan examines one of the most fearsome machines of WWII. Germany’s advanced WWII war machinery included intercontinental ballistic missiles (the V-2),…
With the ever-growing popularity of genealogy and family history, more and more societies and organisations are being established offering help and guidance. Here, MHM has…
Eric Bryan studies the design of a deadly 16th Century Korean war-vessel. In 1591, with the threat of foreign invasion in mind,…
Go Entertain, £13.99 This exciting new documentary follows Dan Snow as he visits some of the most renowned castles in the world,…
Durk Steed highlights the role of first-wave amtrac driver Don Crain during the 1943 Tarawa invasion. Don Crain turned 17 in October…
MHM explores the rich military history of the island of Alderney, and encourages you to do the same! Alderney, third largest of…
In 1588, the bulk of the English fleet comprised 500-tonne race-built galleons designed primarily as floating gun-platforms. This detailed diagram 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…
The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of…
The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…
In 1302, the townspeople of Flanders rebelled against the French, laying siege to the castle at Courtrai. The French sent an army…
In our Jutland — the combat experience feature this month, Peter Hart reconstructs the action of the battle using personal accounts of men…
Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly…
It was the first time since 390 BC that the city of Rome had fallen to a barbarian enemy. It shocked the…
The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects…
The Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield,…
Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
On 11 November 1920, one of the largest funerals ever held in London took place – and yet the deceased was a…
Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…
This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
On 11 November 1920, one of the largest funerals ever held in London took place – and yet the deceased was a…
Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…
This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…
This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
On 11 November 1920, one of the largest funerals ever held in London took place – and yet the deceased was a…