This issue, we’re giving away three copies of At the Gates of Rome, courtesy of Osprey Publishing. In this epic new book,
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Advertisement feature by MyHeritage The horrific events of the Holocaust tore apart countless families, many of whom were never reunited. One of
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The Battle for Crete should have been an Allied victory. The problem, however, was the Allied high command.
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The ballots have been cast, the votes have been counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book Awards. We
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In our latest issue, we look at the transformation of warfare in the first half of the 16th century.
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On this episode of The PastCast, historian and teacher Graham Goodlad charts the military careers of the king and his heir, a
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How a new way of war led to an extraordinary victory
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- Against the odds: how Hitler’s airborne elite took Crete
- The King’s culprits: what became of the prisoners of 1798?
- The Battle of Sluys: a forgotten medieval naval clash
- Conflict and consequences: the myth of decisive battle
- Black soldiers in the American West
- Churchill’s darkest hour: the military disasters of 1942
- Renaissance warfare: a military revolution
- Waterloo uncovered: veterans, archaeology, and the battlefield
- The charge of the Iron Fleet: Charleston, 1863
- The Butterfly Effect: the accident that triggered the Blitz
- The Battle of Crécy: how a new way of war led to an extraordinary victory
- ‘The worst maritime disaster ever’: the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff
- General Wolfe at Quebec, 1759: a new analysis
- The Battle of Chinese Farm: Sinai, 1973
- The resistance and the return: the Philippines, 1942-1945
- Pearl Harbor: the start of the Japanese blitzkrieg
- Tel el-Kebir, 1882: how the British crushed a nationalist army
- ‘Luck and pluck’: why the Americans won the Revolutionary War
- Invading a ‘frontier of Europe’: the Tudor conquest of Ireland
- Memorials of the Mighty Eighth, America’s WWII bomber fleet
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent
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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
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