There are a select number of battlefield tours that every military history enthusiast should experience. Here we list five of the finest, most reasonably priced,…
Keith Robinson has just returned from a visit to another splendid military museum on the South Coast. The entrance to the car…
In the snowy expanse of the Norwegian countryside, a British officer and his gunner find themselves sharing a remote hunting cabin with…
Where is the best place to study a course in military history? We look at two Universities offering outstanding courses in the…
Eric Bryan examines the only gun tractor small enough to fit inside the hold of a Junker Ju 52 aircraft. Popularly named the…
Since the advent of the modern press, newspapers and journals have dispatched their reporters to the seat of war in pursuit of…
Food in the trenches of the First World War was scarce. Rations were measly, meals repetitive, and hunger often the companion of…
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…
