The August/September 2021 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is…
The June/July 2021 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is…
Eighty years ago this year, the German Nazis mounted the greatest invasion in history.…
The 115m-long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. Johnston led an attack…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
r is a renowned scholar of the Roman Army and has written many books, both on this topic and related Roman subjects.…
David Porter on military history’s doomed inventions…
The story of Alexander the Great, the dashing young prince who conquered vast swathes of the world before his mysterious death at…
The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…
Operation Gunnerside, as it was known, the destruction of the heavy water plant in Vemork, Norway, is just one of countless covert…