MHM and Star Statues are giving one lucky person the chance to win a free miniature statue of choice from their current…
Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…
The Novgorod’s design originated in 1868, when the Scottish shipbuilder John Elder proposed widening the beam of a warship to reduce the…
Making an international, big-budget, action movie about Operation Market Garden was never going to be easy. To start with, the operation was…
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‘Waterloo’ – and especially variations of the phrase ‘to meet one’s Waterloo’ – have come to signify a firm, conclusive end to…
Tim Bouverie’s Appeasing Hitler strides boldly and confidently through a decade of British political and diplomatic history. Such history could be dull,…
Seventy-five years after the event, Market Garden continues to grip historians and readers alike. It is one of those great ‘might have…
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption…
The Roman legions needed support. By the 1st century AD, the citizen legionaries of Rome, drawn primarily from Italy, were supplemented by…









