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Alexander the Great

We chart the career of Alexander from Macedonia to the Indus, and analyse the Battle of Gaugamela, his greatest victory.…

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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

  • Map of the Third Afghan War 1919

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

  • BATTLE MAPS: The Brusilov Offensive,1916

    The Russian Imperial Army has been portrayed as unfit to wage a modern war. It is best known for a catalogue of…

  • 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 Courtrai, 1302

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

  • The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314

    As every Scotsman knows, in 1314, at midsummer, the might of the English army came to grief in the boggy ground below…

  • Sinking the Bismarck – Map of the last voyage of the Bismarck

    In this map specially prepared for MHM, we chart the last journey of the Bismarck in May 1941. Here the course of…

  • The Battle of Quebec, 13 September 1759

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

  • Boudica's final battle

    Exclusively commissioned for Military Times, this battle map illustrates the route taken by Boudicca in preparation for her final battle. This map…

  • Battle of Steenkirk, 3 August 1692

    The struggle for supremacy between Britain and France dominated the History of the British Army from 1688 to 1815. the struggle began…

  • 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…

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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…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits Caen, July 1944

Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…

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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: The Paris Exodus

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

16th Queen's Lancers during advance to the Marne Sept. 1914.
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BEHIND THE IMAGE – Race to the Sea

The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Charge of the Royal Naval Division, 1915

This photograph shows infantry from the British Royal Naval Division climbing out of the trenches as if for a charge at the…

Behind The Image/Napoleonic

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…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Number of people mobilised in World War II

The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history – involving 30 belligerent nations, it was fought from the far…

Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: the struck Japanese fleet carrier Amagi, 24 July 1945

Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a…

Behind The Image/Modern/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Wind tunnel testing, Messerschmitt Bf 109, 1940

It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…

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