At the time of his death in 1914, Bennet Burleigh was quite possibly the most famous war correspondent in the world. The…
Guns are an everyday feature of most military museums, but one weapon in particular has attracted a lot of attention. A WWI…
Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…
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The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
It was one of the most famous armoured cruisers of the First World War, but it had remained lost for a century.…
When the USAAF’s Eighth Air Force arrived in Britain in mid-1942, it was confident that unescorted formations of B-17 Flying Fortresses could…
Just when you thought there was nothing else to say about the First World War after four years of commemorations, along comes…
The location of the battle that supposedly ‘brought England into existence’ was always going to be hotly disputed. But archaeologists now claim…
The shock of the early Zeppelin raids initiated a host of unconventional countermeasures, including Professor Archibald Low’s project for a small radio-controlled…