This unique ship is the last of over 800 tank-carrying landing craft to have served at D-Day, the amphibious Allied assault on…
The October/November issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to…
From the beginning, Okinawa challenged expectations. The landing was supposed to be the bloodiest of the war so far. The 182,000 troops…
Hunger is breezy in its approach, but the subject Blom discusses is a serious one. Indeed, the spectre of food – or…
Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while…
The idea ‘took off’ in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation, when a German invasion seemed imminent and there was a critical…
During a training session in the English Channel in May 1878, SMS Grosser Kurfürst was accidentally rammed by another German warship, SMS…
The Spartans were well-known for their frugality, living simply with a minimum of comforts, and ‘spartan’ acquired the sense of extreme simplicity…
The research, published in the journal Britannia, is expected to aid understanding of how Wales was conquered and dominated 2,000 years ago.…
The images, released earlier this spring to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, show two amphibious vehicles undergoing tests in the…