We asked you to think of something appropriately witty for this image taken from our article on the Battle of Fleurus, featured…
Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…
The February issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe…
The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
Few today can recall much about the Jacobites, other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘the Young Chevalier’, and his noble defeat at Culloden…
Most Britons are proud of their country’s role in helping to bring about victory in the Second World War. There is nothing…
It was one of the most famous armoured cruisers of the First World War, but it had remained lost for a century.…
When the USAAF’s Eighth Air Force arrived in Britain in mid-1942, it was confident that unescorted formations of B-17 Flying Fortresses could…
Imagine this scene: soldiers bring out the body parts of executed men and place them outside their barracks; their loved ones arrive…
Just when you thought there was nothing else to say about the First World War after four years of commemorations, along comes…