‘Waterloo’ – and especially variations of the phrase ‘to meet one’s Waterloo’ – have come to signify a firm, conclusive end to…
Tim Bouverie’s Appeasing Hitler strides boldly and confidently through a decade of British political and diplomatic history. Such history could be dull,…
Seventy-five years after the event, Market Garden continues to grip historians and readers alike. It is one of those great ‘might have…
We asked you to think of something appropriately witty for this image from our feature on the Bombay Grenadiers at Maiwand, published…
This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars. The English Civil Wars tore families…
The August issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe…
The world’s largest ever airborne operation was launched during September 1944, with less than a week of planning. This was one of…
It was less a pitched battle than a succession of accidental collisions; less a decisive trial of strength than a momentary eruption…
The Roman legions needed support. By the 1st century AD, the citizen legionaries of Rome, drawn primarily from Italy, were supplemented by…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…