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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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Lee and Jackson

What is the role of the individual in history? The collaboration between Robert E Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson changed the course…

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Pigeons at Passchendaele

Gervase Phillips reports on the vital role of the ‘pigeon post’ amid Passchendaele’s waterlogged crater-fields. For Major Alec Waley, the commanding officer…

Feature/Modern/War Photographers/WWI

Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: 1914-1918

As the years draw on, the events of the First World War slowly fade from living memory. Scattered across the globe, the…

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The Vietnam War

The war devastated Vietnam and tore America apart. As the body bags returned home in their thousands, US generals – who once…

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Tudor war against Scotland

The bloody end met by Mary Queen of Scots at the hands of her cousin Elizabeth I of England is well known.…

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The Russian Civil War

How did the Russian Civil War betray a popular revolution? MHM Editor Neil Faulkner assesses the historical significance of the conflict. It…

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American naval power: Abraham Lincoln and the Union Navy

Patrick Boniface analyses the expansion and transformation of the US Navy during the American Civil War. ‘Give me six hours to chop…

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Battle Maps

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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…

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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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    The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of…

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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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    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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    Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the positioning of German and British airforces during the afternoon battle of Battle…

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    To help you visualize the action in  Major General Julian Thompson’s lead feature for MHM on the Royal Navy’s triumph during the Falklands,…

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    In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of…

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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…

Behind the Image

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits Caen, July 1944

Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945

This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…

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…

Behind The Image/WWI

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…

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 – ‘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…

American Civil War/Behind The Image

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Raising the dead, 1865

The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…

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…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: D-Day in colour

This image, Into the Jaws of Death, is one of the most famous of the Second World War. It was taken by…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE – Marching to the future

Belgian Carabiniers with dog-drawn heavy machine-gun, 1914 Marching toward the camera, and shot from a low angle, these Belgian Carabiniers are given…

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