The USS Grunion was a Gato-class submarine that was sunk at Kiska, Alaska, during World War II. Operating near the Aleutian Islands,…
The spectacular remains of an Iron Age warrior, discovered 12 years ago in Chichester, England, will soon be put on public display…
The American Civil War might easily have ended in 1862. In the event, it dragged on for three more years, claiming the…
Dubbed ‘the Soldier’s Friend’, his work had been syndicated across the States, making him a household name. President Harry Truman, on learning…
The truth is that the Normandy Campaign was a vast enterprise, of engineering, logistics, strategy, and planning, but it was also, once…
The September issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and…
The Novgorod’s design originated in 1868, when the Scottish shipbuilder John Elder proposed widening the beam of a warship to reduce the…
The life of a journalist who was never far from the front-line: George Orwell. His writing sought to rationalise and navigate the…