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Spain at war: a country divided
In our latest issue, we trace the complex history of the Spanish Civil War, and examine the bloodiest engagement of the conflict

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An updated version of his 1987 Battle of Britain memoir of the same title, Tom Neil recounts his time as a 19-year-old

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The February/March 2023 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:Spain at war: a country divided

MHM December 2022/January 2023

November 9, 2022

The December 2022/January 2023 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:The Soviet Union in five

MHM October/November 2022

September 13, 2022

The October/November 2022 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:Monty and Alamein: ‘The end of

MHM August/September 2022

July 13, 2022

The August/September 2022 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:WARFARE & THE WALL: THE GENESIS

Fact File

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

10 things you didn’t know about the Norman conquest of Ireland

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

10 ways to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings

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

All you need to know about… Leon Trotsky

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 Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745
The War of the Austrian Succession found the British Army run down and neglected, its proud military traditions grown sclerotic. Yet in
Battle of Britain Map: an Overview
Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map provides an overview of the locations of the major British and German squadrons, bombed
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
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,
Map of the Battle of Maiwand – 27 July 1880
Map of the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army of
The Battle of Marathon- 490 BC
The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects
Battle of Steenkirk, 3 August 1692
The struggle for supremacy between Britain and France dominated the History of the British Army from 1688 to 1815. the struggle began
The Dutch War of Independence
When the war began in 1566, Imperial Spain was the world’s greatest superpower. By the time it ended, in 1609, ‘the Spanish century’ was
D-Day: Plan of Operations on 6 June, 1944
How were tens of thousands of infantry landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944? How was the supply of ammo,
Sinking the Bismarck – Map of the last voyage of the Bismarck
In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of

Behind the Image

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/Modern/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Kristallnacht, by Charlotte Salomon, from Life? Or Theatre? 1940-1942

With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene

Behind The Image/Napoleonic

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Napoleon’s Tomb

In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled

Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Inchon Landings, Korea, 1950

This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red