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  • Verdun: the longest battle

    Verdun – or the ‘Mill on the Meuse’, as it became known – holds a similar place in France’s national psyche to…

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REVIEW – The Dawn of the Drone

The shock of the early Zeppelin raids initiated a host of unconventional countermeasures, including Professor Archibald Low’s project for a small radio-controlled…

Early Modern/News

Three Armada portraits of Elizabeth I united for the first time

Faces of a Queen: the Armada Portraits of Elizabeth, a free exhibition at the Queen’s House in Greenwich, opens on 13 February…

Napoleonic/News

Nelson’s Trafalgar sketch discovered in scrapbook

All great military tacticians plan their campaigns carefully, but only very rarely do those plans survive. Now a sketch showing Admiral Lord…

18th Century/Cover Feature/Modern

Washington and Yorktown

George Washington earned a place in the pantheon of leaders who led both militarily and politically through the storms of revolution. Combining…

Books/Modern

REVIEW – Bolts from the Blue: From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns’ book can, in essence, be divided into two distinct sections: his ‘junior’ and ‘senior’ officer days,…

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Remembering the dead in the wildest of crash sites

The Brecon Beacons National Park is an unusual place for a commemoration. But in early November, it played host to a ceremony…

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REVIEW – Photographs of the Third Reich: Images from the Wehrmacht

Although its subject matter is Germany, this slim volume is packed full of photographs garnered by the author from around the world,…

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Battle Maps

  • BATTLE MAPS: Caesar’s Gallic War

    In the years 58-51 BC, Gaul was conquered and added to the Roman Empire through the military campaigns of Julius Caesar and his legions. For the first…

  • 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…

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    The struggle for supremacy between Britain and France dominated the History of the British Army from 1688 to 1815. the struggle began…

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    James Wolfes’ victory at Quebec gave the British dominion over North American. It was the victory of an army forced to adapt…

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    The British Army emerged from the crisis of revolution and civil war that had given it birth with a distinctive military doctrine…

  • Battle of Britain Day Map: the Noon Attack

    Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the formation of the incoming Luftwaffe squadrons for the first attack on the…

  • Waterloo – map of troop manoeuvres

    This map explains the movements of the French, British, and Prussian forces from the 15 to the 18 June, 1815. Napoleon seized…

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    The lines of the Torres Vedras were lines of forts secretly built by the British from around September 1809-1812 to protect Lisbon…

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

Behind the Image

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…

Behind The Image/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The ‘Iron Harvest’ on the Western Front

The original caption reads, ‘Some shell cases on the roadside in the front area, the contents of which have been despatched over…

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.…

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: North Vietnam

MHM looks at a series of recently discovered images taken by North Vietnamese photojournalists during the Vietnam War.…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Wartime Christmas

As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Spectators at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919

Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous…

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/Modern/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE – ‘Forcibly Pulled Out of Dug-outs’

In May 1944, an official document was prepared by Jürgen Stroop detailing the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. The 75-page report was…

Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE – Tanks on Parade

This image shows three tanks taking part in the Lord Mayor’s parade in Ludgate Circus, London in November 1918. The parade celebrated…

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