This unique ship is the last of over 800 tank-carrying landing craft to have served at D-Day, the amphibious Allied assault on…
From the beginning, Okinawa challenged expectations. The landing was supposed to be the bloodiest of the war so far. The 182,000 troops…
Hunger is breezy in its approach, but the subject Blom discusses is a serious one. Indeed, the spectre of food – or…
Thirty years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews have resulted in this fast-paced book seeing the light of day –…
Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while…
During a training session in the English Channel in May 1878, SMS Grosser Kurfürst was accidentally rammed by another German warship, SMS…
The small building in the town of Braunau am Inn, close to the border with Germany, will be redesigned by an Austrian…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
