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    On 4 July 2026, tens of millions of Americans across the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country’s Declaration…

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Battleground Prussia: the Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944-45 – By Prit Buttar

Pritt Buttar’s look at the Soviet assault on Prussia focuses on the brutality and vengeance of the Red Army’s merciless campaign. Through…

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Fighting phantoms: guerrilla warfare from Lawrence to the Taliban

The invaders of Afghanistan find themselves waging a war against an enemy who is never there.…

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Battle of Britain Day – what happened hour by hour

The sky above mid-Kent became a swirling mêlée of fighters closing, banking, and twisting.…

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A Waterloo Hero: The reminiscences of Freidrich Lindau

Edited and presented by James Bogle and Andrew Uffindell More than 150 years after its first publication in German, this English translation…

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Dowding and Park: air war’s greatest commanders?

The British had the most sophisticated air-defence system in the world, constructed and directed by a master strategist of modern industrialised warfare.…

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Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilot’s Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain

by Tom Neil Desperate to join the RAF from the age of 12, Tom Neil makes no bones about the fact that…

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Challenger 2 – Maj. Tim Brown and the Battle for Basra

You could see the killing zone. You could see yourself driving into it. It was concentrated, organised, measured.…

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War on Film: Michael Caine in Zulu

In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…

Fact-file: The Seaborne Causes of the War of 1812

The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…

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Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…

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Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…

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Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…

Battle Maps

  • The Retreat from Kabul – Map

    The first part of our Afghanistan series begins in Issue 1, with an in-depth chronicling of the British army’s disastrous retreat from…

  • Battle of Britain Day Map: the Afternoon Attack

    Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…

  • The Battle of Blenheim, 13 August 1704

    The British Army emerged from the crisis of revolution and civil war that had given it birth with a distinctive military doctrine…

  • Map of Battle of Taranto -11th November 1940

    A map of Taranto Harbour on 11 November 1940, showing the position of the Italian ships, the habour defences, and the direction…

  • Jutland — fleet movements

    In our Jutland — the combat experience feature this month, Peter Hart reconstructs the action of the battle using personal accounts of men…

  • Map of the Battle Of Wakefield, 30th December 1460 – War of the Roses

    The Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield,…

  • Waterloo – map of troop manoeuvres

    This map explains the movements of the French, British, and Prussian forces from the 15 to the 18 June, 1815. Napoleon seized…

  • Battle of Waterloo: The Battle for Hougoumont – Map of Hougoumont farm complex

    The Battle of Waterloo raged all day, but in most sectors, there were lulls  in the fighting. Only at Hougoumont was the…

  • Pirates! – the Royal Navy’s trade routes

    British trade routes were plagued by pirates during the 19th century, but where were the most dangerous and densely-populated pirate havens?…

  • Operation Barbarossa Map, 1941

    Map of Operation Barbarossa showing the direction of German attacks and the major pockets of Russian troops surrounded by blitzkrieg breakthroughs between…

Behind the Image

16th Queen's Lancers during advance to the Marne Sept. 1914.
Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE – Race to the Sea

The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE – L’infanterie Cycliste

The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: the struck Japanese fleet carrier Amagi, 24 July 1945

Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE – Marching to the future

Belgian Carabiniers with dog-drawn heavy machine-gun, 1914 Marching toward the camera, and shot from a low angle, these Belgian Carabiniers are given…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Paris Exodus

This campaign of terror provoked an exodus – and the Biblical term is appropriate. The French government fled, soon followed by many…

Behind The Image/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The ‘Iron Harvest’ on the Western Front

The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE – Crash Landing

Zeppelin IV lands on the parade ground of Luneville, April 1913 In traditional landscape format with the horizon a third of the…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE – Deserted Trench

Abandoned British position captured by the Germans This cold and desolate image shows an abandoned British trench following a German attack, with…

Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Prague Spring, 1968

Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits Caen, July 1944

Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…

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