This WWII drama bases its action around Operation Dragoon, a vital part of the 1944 D-Day Landings. It acts as a prequel to Canadian director Ryan Little’s Saints and Soldiers made ten years ago, which dealt with the Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge. Little’s first offering was an impressive master-class in creating [...]

There are hundreds of military museums and heritage sites throughout Europe specialising in different eras, armies, and wars. With some opening new exhibitions and others having recently revamped their existing ones, there are plenty of places to visit to further your interest in military history. We have selected six of the best museums and heritage [...]

                      Joe Knight looks at the life of Maria Dickin, founder of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 1917 and creator of the ‘animals’ Victoria Cross’. Military medals are awarded for a variety of different reasons. In America, the most prestigious of these [...]

Designed by the Germans, copied by the British and thrown out of aeroplanes over occupied Europe, the Royal Enfield Flying Flea was the most successful military motorcycle developed for use by airborne troops in the Second World War. Ironically, the British Army would not have benefited from this light weight vehicle had it not been [...]

The English language changed drastically during the swinging Sixties. ‘Cool’ suddenly meant fashionable or aloof, to ‘dig’ something was to enjoy it, and a Snark – once the sinister subject of Lewis Caroll’s poem The Hunting of the Snark – was now an intercontinental cruise missile capable of carrying a W39 thermonuclear warhead. Proposed as [...]

There are a select number of battlefield tours that every military history enthusiast should experience. Here we list five of the finest, most reasonably priced, worldwide tours available. Entente Cordiale Battlefield Tours Entente Cordiale Battlefield Tours grew out of the passion to preserve the memory of the World War I battlefields and of those who fought. The business has [...]