Doris Miller earned the Navy Cross for his actions during the Japanese attack on the US base at Pearl Harbor on 7…
This book is written rather in the style of an excellent set of lecture notes produced by a diligent tutor. Frank Ledwidge,…
In the 1950s, the Cold War was at its height. To many, it seemed to be a question of when, rather than…
Like a sort of Second World War smorgasbord, you can take a look and pull tasty morsels out of Hidden Places of…
Guns are an everyday feature of most military museums, but one weapon in particular has attracted a lot of attention. A WWI…
We asked you to think of something appropriately witty for this image taken from our article on the Battle of Fleurus, featured…
Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…
The February issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe…
The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
Most Britons are proud of their country’s role in helping to bring about victory in the Second World War. There is nothing…