Newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook was appointed Minister of Aircraft Production by Churchill in May 1940. At the time, German forces were advancing rapidly through France towards…
Continuing his exploration of French military museums, this month Keith Robinson heads north to Reims. Set high above the road from Reims to…
The November issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is on sale today.…
This month we have 5 copies of Secret Weapons: Death Rays, Doodlebugs and Churchill’s Golden Goose to be won. Deep in the bunkers…
Forbidden Ground Entertainment One 19 August 2013 £8 Co-directors Johan Earl and Adrian Powers’s nerve-racking new WWI indie drama Forbidden Ground has…
Each month, Military History Monthly’s ‘On Manoeuvres’ section brings you details of Britain’s finest history-themed activities, from lecture days and air shows, to…
During the reign of King Gustav II Adolf (1611-1632) Sweden rose to become the dominant military power in Northern Europe on land.…
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…
Stephen Miles explores British fortifications erected in preparation for a war that never happened. On 5 September 1800, French forces surrendered Malta…