What military ephemera should you choose to start collecting and why? Here are some of the most popular collectors' items.…
Go Entertain 13 August 2012, £19.99 If there are any gaps in your knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, prepare to have them plugged. This three CD release takes you…
Tom Farrell describes one of the most formidable guerilla armies of modern times. Typically, serving members of the Tamil Tigers wore distinctive combat fatigues banded…
In 1809, a 5ft 5in tall, brown-haired Irishman called John Rowland enlisted in the 95th Regiment of Foot, already by then a sharpshooting Rifle…
Taken from our Bombing For D-Day feature by Thomas Withington, this map shows the railyards in France targeted by the RAF as…
Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism. During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…
A bizarre alternative Olympics was organised by Chinese Communists at a Korean War POW camp.…
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…
