The Führerbunker was built beneath the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. This subterranean complex was constructed in two phases, the first in 1936…
Photography gallery from this year's War and Peace Show…
Philip Andrews responds to Mark Corby’s analysis of the failure of Operation Barbarossa in MT 9. The failure of Barbarossa is really quite…
Your handy guide to aerial bombing. This illustration appeared in a british wartime publication around the time of the Baedecker Blitz…
Your country needs you – and hundreds of thousands had come forwards. So at first, it was a war of the willing. But…
Two years of amateur warfare had changed nothing.The English Civil War remained in the balance. Then, in February 1645, Parliament created the New…
A history of the British Army in 25 Battles. We will be telling the story of the British Army - focusing on…
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…
