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TOP FIVE: Military Sidecars

Apr 10, 2015 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file 0

MHM looks at the innovative designs in military sidecars since 1914, including the Scott Mobile Machine Gun, and the Watsonian Sidecar Ambulance.

TOP FIVE: Vikings

Mar 16, 2015 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file 0

MHM looks at some of the most formidable and fascinating Vikings. 5. Erik the Red Hot-headed Erik the Red made murder his business. After being exiled from Iceland in 982 for ‘some killings’,...

TOP FIVE: Gladiators

Feb 12, 2015 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file 0

MHM introduces the most fearsome warriors of the Roman arena. 5. Marcus Attilius Free-Born fighter Type of fighter: murmillo Attilius was a free-born Roman, who most likely volunteered himself...

TOP FIVE: Aerial Battles

Jan 09, 2015 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file, Slider 2

MHM looks at five of the costliest aerial battles in history. 5. AIR BATTLE OF SAINT-MIHIEL WHERE/WHEN: France, 12-16 September 1918 OUTCOME: Allied victory over Germany The Saint-Mihiel salient...

TOP FIVE: Medieval Weapons

Dec 11, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file 0

MHM looks at five of the most fearsome hand-to-hand weapons of the Medieval era. 5. LONGSWORD FAVOURED BY: European knights The longsword first emerged as a distinctive type of Late Medieval sword...

TIMELINE: The Sassanian Empire

Oct 10, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Ancient, Ancient warfare, Articles, Fact-file, Timeline 1

The Sassanian Empire: Rome’s unbeaten rival in the East. With all its success and brilliance in Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa, Rome never conquered the Spah...

10 Principles of Sassanian Warfare

Oct 10, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Ancient, Ancient warfare, Articles, Fact-file, Slider 0

The Spah ('military') of the Sassanian Empire were Rome's unbeaten rivals in the East. Here we look at 10 principles of Sassanian warfare.

5 Myths about the Wars of the Roses

Oct 10, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file, Medieval, Slider, Wars of the Roses 0

We examine 5 myths surrounding the Wars of the Roses, as part of our 17-page special feature in issue 50 of Military History Monthly.

Britain Goes to War: 4 August 1914

Aug 04, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file, Modern, WWI 0

To mark Britain’s momentous declaration of war 100 years ago today, MHM has created this graphic study of the country’s military as it prepared for war. To get a better view of the...

Battle of the River Plate: Ship Specifications

Jul 11, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Fact-file, Modern, Slider, WWII 0

On 13 December 1939, while Britain was living through a ‘Phoney War’ at home, in the waters off the River Plate a vicious sea battle was being played out, pitting three small cruisers...