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Military History Matters has curated a list of 2024’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards. Our selection includes some…

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Clive in India

A legacy of controversy…

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Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours now offering two new WWII in the Pacific tours in 2025

On the 80th anniversary of the end of the War in the Pacific, Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours is offering two new WWII…

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Napoleon: rise of a military colossus

In our special feature for this issue, we mark the rise to prominence of Europe’s most remarkable conqueror.…

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When Europe went to war

More than a century on, interest in this extraordinary drama shows few signs of fading.…

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Valor Tours now offering three Guadalcanal itineraries to Solomon Islands in 2024 and 2025

Heralding its annual return of land and cruise based tours to the South Pacific, Valor Tours, Ltd, the leading US operator of…

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D-Day, 80 years on

What was it like for the soldiers who took part in Overlord?…

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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…

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    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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    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 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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    1916-1917: an infantry revolution 1916 was a year of great offensives – at Verdun and on the Somme – offensives made possible…

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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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    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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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: Inside the Fortress

It looks like the interior of a spaceship. But the shimmering framework is that of a B-17F, under construction at the Douglas…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Liberation of Paris, August 1944

De Gaulle strode down the centre of the grand route, hailed by banners that proclaimed, 'Long live de Gaulle' and 'De Gaulle…

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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…

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…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Unknown Warrior, 1920

On 11 November 1920, one of the largest funerals ever held in London took place – and yet the deceased was a…

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…

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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…

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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: U-Boat on Hastings beach, April 1919

U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…

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