We assesses the life and career of Britain’s best-known and most controversial military commander of the Second World War.
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This issue, we’re giving away five copies of the classic 1950 film The Men on Blu-ray/DVD, courtesy of the British Film Institute
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In this exclusive online-only competition, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to see the National Theatre's new play, Jack Absolute Flies
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This Roman frontier was built and operated by the Roman army, but its precise purpose remains shrouded in mystery.
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This issue, we’re giving away three copies of At the Gates of Rome, courtesy of Osprey Publishing. In this epic new book,
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Advertisement feature by MyHeritage The horrific events of the Holocaust tore apart countless families, many of whom were never reunited. One of
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The Battle for Crete should have been an Allied victory. The problem, however, was the Allied high command.
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The April/May 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 Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides,
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
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
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
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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