The opening scenes of this Japanese WWII film throw us straight into furious action. Japanese troops holding the islandof Saipan are being…
Susie Kearley speaks to one of the former cartographers at Hughenden Manor, a WWII military base whose secrets have, until recently, remained…
James Wearn reports on a vast battlefield of both world wars, filled with the bodies of the unrecovered dead. In a dark,…
Military historian and TV presenter Dan Snow has just brought out a new iPad app that tells the story of the Second…
The enormous success of last year’s film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel War Horse caused a sudden public obsession with the…
In order to help MHM readers further their genealogical searches, we have approached five of the top family history specialists looking for…
Go Entertain, £12.99 This extensive biopic of one of Russia’s most famous figures goes about its business in an authoritative, no-nonsense manner.…
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…
