As the last knot of mutineers stood against the charge of the 10th Bombay Native Infantry, there must have been many who…
Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly…
‘Legion’ derives from the Latin legio, which itself comes from the verb legere, meaning ‘to choose’ or ‘to levy’.…
It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…
Neat ‘tache… who was he? Once called ‘the most powerful man in Germany’, Erich Ludendorff was a prominent general in the German Army…
The September issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. In this issue we cover: The Spanish-American War, 1898…
This month, one lucky reader has the chance to win the first four titles in the new Casemate Classic War Fiction series.…
Think of something appropriately witty for this picture and leave your caption as a comment below. The best caption will be judged…
In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…
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