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The Sherman Tank

Building the Sherman Tank In 1940, in the light of the successful use of panzers in the European war, the US Army decided to start…

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CHARITY PROMOTION: The Gallipoli Association

The Gallipoli and Dardanelles campaign of 1915-1916 was a British-led campaign for which the UK provided men from virtually every county in the land, including Ireland. Britain…

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Centenary Season

MHM‘s Centenary Season continues with a selection of specialist military history events. From an in-depth look at the music of the First…

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Museum Guide

With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has…

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TOP FIVE: Gladiators

MHM introduces the most fearsome warriors of the Roman arena. 5. Marcus Attilius Free-Born fighter Type of fighter: murmillo  Attilius was a free-born Roman,…

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CONFLICT SCIENTISTS – Frank Whittle

Born: 1 June 1907, Earlsdon, Coventry Occupation: RAF Engineer Officer Awards: KBE (1948), CBE (1944), CB (1947), Louis E. Levy Medal (1956), Order of Merit (1986),…

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In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…

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The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…

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Battle Maps

  • Battle Maps: Passchendaele, 1917

    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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    It was the culmination of ten years of increasingly violent unrest between supporters of King Henry VI and his cousin Richard, Duke…

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    James Wolfes’ victory at Quebec gave the British dominion over North American. It was the victory of an army forced to adapt…

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    The Battle of Waterloo raged all day, but in most sectors, there were lulls  in the fighting. Only at Hougoumont was the…

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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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    Isandlwana was perhaps the greatest defeat inflicted on the British redcoats by native warriors in imperial history. To read the full article, see…

  • Operation Barbarossa Map, 1941

    Map of Operation Barbarossa showing the direction of German attacks and the major pockets of Russian troops surrounded by blitzkrieg breakthroughs between…

  • The Battle of Marathon- 490 BC

    The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects…

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    In our Jutland — the combat experience feature this month, Peter Hart reconstructs the action of the battle using personal accounts of men…

  • Battle of Britain Day Map: the Noon Attack

    Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the formation of the incoming Luftwaffe squadrons for the first attack on the…

Behind the Image

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…

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…

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/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…

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…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits the docks

In the Second World War, the dockyards and riverside factories of London’s East End were essential to the country’s struggle against the…

Behind The Image/Modern

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: 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/Modern/WWII

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…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Kristallnacht, by Charlotte Salomon, from Life? Or Theatre? 1940-1942

With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…

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