By the time the Viet Cong flag was being raised across Saigon on 30 April 1975, the United States had spent the…
David Porter takes a look at everything that went wrong with the Large Light Cruiser.…
Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris…
More than 4,000 square miles of hills and ridges, thickly forested, dissected by streams and rivers, its few roads punctuated by chokepoints.…
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Think of something appropriately witty for this image from our Behind the Image article, published in the October issue of Military History…
This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Hunt The Bismarck, courtesy of Osprey. Drawing on expert research and first-hand accounts of…
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Dubbed ‘the Soldier’s Friend’, his work had been syndicated across the States, making him a household name. President Harry Truman, on learning…
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once…