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MHM Book of the Year 2020: Shortlist

MHM has curated a list of 2019’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM book awards. Our selection includes…

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REVIEW – Sparta’s First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478 – 446 BC

With this book, Paul Rahe continues his projected six-volume account of the history of the Spartan state.…

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War Reporters: Thomas Morris Chester

Thomas Morris Chester is a name little-known in most households. But Chester was a remarkable pioneer.…

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MHM Book of the Year 2020

The nominees for this year's MHM book awards have been announced, and we need your help to select the winners!…

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REVIEW – The Fortress: the Great Siege of Przemysl

I had thought I knew a lot about the First World War. Until I read this book. Then I discovered a yawning…

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Allied war graves restored in Iraq after decades of disrepair

After decades of instability, nearly 200 World War Two graves in Iraq have been restored to their former character.…

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Secrets of the Blitz uncovered by beach-exploring student

Emma Marsh, 20, has uncovered captivating insights into the history of Liverpool through rubble dumped at the coast following…

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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

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    British trade routes were plagued by pirates during the 19th century, but where were the most dangerous and densely-populated pirate havens?…

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    Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map provides an overview of the locations of the major British and German squadrons, bombed…

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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…

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    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…

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    Map of Operation Barbarossa showing the direction of German attacks and the major pockets of Russian troops surrounded by blitzkrieg breakthroughs between…

  • The Battle of Quebec, 13 September 1759

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

  • Map of Battle of Taranto -11th November 1940

    A map of Taranto Harbour on 11 November 1940, showing the position of the Italian ships, the habour defences, and the direction…

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    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…

  • Map of the Third Afghan War 1919

    The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…

Behind the Image

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/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…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits the docks

In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

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…

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/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…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: captured Luftwaffe crewmen, London Underground, 1940

In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

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…

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…

Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE: COSSACK BAY, BALAKLAVA, 1855 BY ROGER FENTON

This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack…

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