Taylor Downing reviews a film that made heroes of behind-the-scenes science boffins. The word ‘boffin’ became widely used during the Second World…
Driving into Bury St Edmunds along the Newmarket Road, one encounters a rather forbidding red-brick Victorian building. This is The Keep of…
Think of something appropriately witty for this picture and leave your caption as a comment below. The best caption will be judged…
This month we have 10 hardback copies of Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories by Miranda Seymour to…
The October issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is on sale today.…
Stephen Miles explores British fortifications erected in preparation for a war that never happened. On 5 September 1800, French forces surrendered Malta…
The French Foreign Legion Museum In 1888 the French Foreign Legion was authorised to create a ‘Hall of Honour’ – a place…
Maureen Knopp from Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire was seven years old when the Second World War began. Here, she tells Susie Kearley…
This month, Military History Monthly has three copies of the new DVD Forbidden Ground to give away! Experience the grit and determination of…
The Untold History of the United States Fremantle Media International 1 July 2013 £19.99 ‘History is a pack of lies agreed upon’,…