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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
The August/September 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:WARFARE & THE WALL: THE GENESIS
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- The King’s culprits: what became of the prisoners of 1798?
- The Battle of Sluys: a forgotten medieval naval clash
- Conflict and consequences: the myth of decisive battle
- Black soldiers in the American West
- Churchill’s darkest hour: the military disasters of 1942
- Renaissance warfare: a military revolution
- Waterloo uncovered: veterans, archaeology, and the battlefield
- The charge of the Iron Fleet: Charleston, 1863
- The Butterfly Effect: the accident that triggered the Blitz
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