Wellington’s Peninsular campaign was waged amid a war that remains totally dominated by naval strategy within the British historical memory. Where glory…
What is Zulu so well respected? Measured against the production standards of modern war-films, Zulu certainly shows its age.…
If the Battle of Britain was a victory of ‘the Few’: that of a small military elite of fighter pilots, the Battle…
Continuing our review of military classics, Military Times looks at A J P Taylor’s controversial publication on the causes of the Second…
The Command of the Air is the greatest military treatise on air war ever written – a dogmatic manifesto promising victory through…
Immortalised in the ‘Band of Brothers’, the men of Easy Company,were rightly acclaimed for their bravery and daring, as well as their…
In the latest issue of Military Times, we analyse the first major defeat of Napoleon’s empire, at the Lines of Torres Vedras.…
Complimenting our fact-files on Spitfire, Churchill, Hitler and Stalin, Military Times has compiled a list of frequently baffling facts about the Second World…
Winston Churchill, the emblematic British wartime leader is instantly recognisable by his cigar, hat, trenchcoat, and imposing frame.…
We review Colonel C E Callwell’s famous Late Victorian counter-insurgency manual, Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice. The military academies are buzzing…