Military History Matters has curated a list of 2024’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards. Our selection includes some…
Driven by desperation in the waning months of the Second World War – and motivated by a martial code, bushido, that glorified…
Fiennes had picked his moment well. Ever since the dramatic Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, the press, and to some degree the…
The Chicago-born ‘slider’ became the youngest Olympic gold medallist ever as a 16-year-old at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz. Four…
Simon de Montfort was a colossus in English affairs during the 13th century, as this biography skilfully explains. What is revealed is…
Carrawburgh is one of 16 forts along the 118km Hadrian’s Wall. The frontier, built around AD 122, was responsible for defending the…
The Battle of Midway is the subject of a new blockbuster, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, and…
We asked you to think of something appropriately witty for this image from our feature on the rise of Japanese Militarism, published…
Introducing Seema Syeda’s new series on battlefield scoops throughout the ages. The practice of recording the events of war is as old…
Patrick Boniface on the deaths in battle of regal warriors. According to a popular Czech tradition, before he committed himself to combat…