We assesses the life and career of Britain’s best-known and most controversial military commander of the Second World War.
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This issue, we’re giving away five copies of the classic 1950 film The Men on Blu-ray/DVD, courtesy of the British Film Institute
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In this exclusive online-only competition, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to see the National Theatre's new play, Jack Absolute Flies
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This Roman frontier was built and operated by the Roman army, but its precise purpose remains shrouded in mystery.
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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 October/November 2022 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:Monty and Alamein: ‘The end of
The August/September 2022 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:WARFARE & THE WALL: THE GENESIS
- 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
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
