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  • Hitler’s airborne elite and the battle for Crete

    The Battle for Crete should have been an Allied victory. The problem, however, was the Allied high command.

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MHM August/September 2021

July 8, 2021
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The August/September 2021 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is

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MHM Competition: August/September [Competition Closed]

June 25, 2021
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This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Tornado, courtesy of Simon & Schuster. John Nichol, a former Tornado navigator and the

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MHM June/July 2021

May 13, 2021
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The June/July 2021 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is

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Barbarossa – the biggest invasion in history

May 13, 2021
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Eighty years ago this year, the German Nazis mounted the greatest invasion in history.

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MHM Competition: June/July [Competition Closed]

May 7, 2021
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This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Barbarossa, courtesy of Headline Publishing. Drawing on previously unseen material from the Russian archives,

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World’s ‘deepest-known shipwreck’ surveyed in the Pacific Ocean

May 5, 2021
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The 115m-long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. Johnston led an attack

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REVIEW – Gladius: living, fighting, and dying in the Roman army

April 29, 2021
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r is a renowned scholar of the Roman Army and has written many books, both on this topic and related Roman subjects.

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REVIEW – Philip and Alexander: kings and conquerors

April 25, 2021
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The story of Alexander the Great, the dashing young prince who conquered vast swathes of the world before his mysterious death at

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War Athletes: Keith Truscott

April 19, 2021
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Christopher Warner on sporting figures in conflict

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REVIEW – Secret Alliances: special operations and intelligence in Norway, 1940-1945

April 7, 2021
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Operation Gunnerside, as it was known, the destruction of the heavy water plant in Vemork, Norway, is just one of countless covert

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Liberation of Paris, August 1944

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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/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits Caen, July 1944

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Wind tunnel testing, Messerschmitt Bf 109, 1940

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