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THINKERS AT WAR – George Orwell

Iain King examines the relationship between war and thought ‘All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from…

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THE GREAT WAR DEBATE 2014

On 27 October 2014, four military history experts will meet at the Royal United Services Institute to debate the question: Was Britain right…

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Autumn Events Guide

A selection of some of the best events coming up over the next few months. MILITARY VEHICLES DAY Over 80 vehicles from across…

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The Battle of Tannenberg: five misconceptions

The campaign resulted in one of the most decisive victories of the First World War. Here, we take a look at five…

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MHM picks the five most efficient and deadly elite regiments from the distant past. 5. The Batavi Allegiance: Roman Empire  The Batavi…

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As part of our extended feature on the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, MHM  looks at the soldiers involved in the…

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To celebrate the re-opening of the Imperial War Museum London, MHM explores the artefacts, old and new, housed in the museum’s famous…

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

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      Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly…

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    The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…

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    In 1302, the townspeople of Flanders rebelled against the French, laying siege to the castle at Courtrai. The French sent an army…

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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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BEHIND THE IMAGE – L’infanterie Cycliste

The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Paris Exodus

This campaign of terror provoked an exodus – and the Biblical term is appropriate. The French government fled, soon followed by many…

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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…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Napoleon’s Tomb

In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…

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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…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: captured Luftwaffe crewmen, London Underground, 1940

In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: B-52 storage area, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

The boneyard here at Davis-Monthan was established in 1946 to store WWII bombers and transports.…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Wartime Christmas

As they enjoy their sparse meal at Beaumont-Hamel on 25 December 1916, the men seem indifferent to a fellow soldier’s grave just…

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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…

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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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