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English Civil War massacre ‘cover-up’ revealed

The site of a Royalist garrison in Nottinghamshire, Shelford Manor was besieged by Parliamentary forces on 3 November 1645.…

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REVIEW – Sicily ’43: the assault on Fortress Europe

Holland has written a series of nine excellent campaign histories over the last few years, looking at fighting World War II in…

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‘Breaking the line’

Neither Admirals Rodney or Howe were paragons of virtue. But they were both personally brave, adept tacticians, and, despite their flaws, effective…

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Rare WWII Enigma machine uncovered in the Baltic

Although the machines were once produced in high quantities, they are today extremely rare, with only a few surviving intact in German…

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War Athletes: Clem Lewis

In his poem ‘Dulce et decorum est’, Wilfred Owen reflects upon his experiences in World War One to capture the horrors of…

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MHM Book of the Year 2021: Shortlist

MHM has curated a list of the best military history titles of 2020: the nominees for this year’s Military History Matters Book…

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REVIEW – Lancaster: the forging of a very British legend

Penned by former RAF Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol, Lancaster is one of the most enthralling aviation history books I…

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

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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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Battle Maps

  • Don McCullin: The Battle of Hue, February 1968

    Photojournalist Don McCullin’s images of war brought the grim reality onto Sunday breakfast tables for two decades . Especially famous are the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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    In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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    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…

  • 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…

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

Behind the Image

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945

This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Charge of the Royal Naval Division, 1915

This photograph shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…

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

BEHIND THE IMAGE: B-52 storage area, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…

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…

American Civil War/Behind The Image

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Raising the dead, 1865

The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: VE Day, 8 May 1945

Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official conclusion of the six-year world war against Hitler and his allies. Civilians and soldiers…

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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…

16th Queen's Lancers during advance to the Marne Sept. 1914.
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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…

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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…

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