This photograph shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…
Building the Sherman Tank In 1940, in the light of the successful use of panzers in the European war, the US Army decided to start…
Born: 1 June 1907, Earlsdon, Coventry Occupation: RAF Engineer Officer Awards: KBE (1948), CBE (1944), CB (1947), Louis E. Levy Medal (1956), Order of Merit (1986),…
This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…
Hill 60 was a low rise south-east of Ypres made from the soil removed in digging a cutting for the Ypres to Comines railway. It…
Biography Born: April 22, 1904 New York Married: Katherine Puening Harrison in 1940 Fields: Theoretical physics Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, California…
The term ‘shell shock’ was first used by military doctors in early 1915 to describe the physical ailments of a nervous breakdown. Initially, it was thought the…
Graham Goodlad reviews the career of Tomoyuki Yamashita, ‘the Tiger of Malaya’, who was responsible for the fall of Singapore in 1942.…
MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…
On 27 October 2014, four military history experts will meet at the Royal United Services Institute to debate the question: Was Britain right…