• Falklands – troop manoeuvres

    To help you visualize the action in  Major General Julian Thompson’s lead feature for MHM on the Royal Navy’s triumph during the Falklands,…

  • 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…

  • AD 937: Olaf’s Approach

    The possible routes taken by Olaf Guthfrithsson, King of Dublin, in this little known Viking battle for Britain…

  • The Defence of London: AD 1642

    Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism.   During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…