Military History Matters has curated a list of 2022’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards.…
In our latest issue, we trace the complex history of the Spanish Civil War, and examine the bloodiest engagement of the conflict…
The Red Army (later known as the Soviet Army) would grow to become one of history’s most feared fighting forces.…
Historian Robert Kershaw argues that the lack of a German perspective means we have only a partial understanding of the ‘miracle of…
On this episode of The PastCast, historian Geoffrey Parker, co-author of a major new history on the doomed campaign, explains what really…
We assesses the life and career of Britain’s best-known and most controversial military commander of the Second World War.…
This issue, we’re giving away five copies of the classic 1950 film The Men on Blu-ray/DVD, courtesy of the British Film Institute…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
