The epic defence of Chakdara is intriguing. It lasted a week (26 July-2 August 1897), involved 240 men defending an isolated post…
The April issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. In this issue: ON THE COVER: BIRTH OF…
Could the Germans have won the First World War in 1918? Almost certainly. A quarter of a century later, the tide of war…
The March issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. In this issue: THE FIRST BLITZKRIEG This month…
'Easily the bloodiest single battle fought in the war.' Mark Bowden, the journalist and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and Killing…
What is the role of the individual in history? The collaboration between Robert E Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson changed the course…
The February issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. In this issue: ON THE COVER: SPARTAN LAST…
Gervase Phillips reports on the vital role of the ‘pigeon post’ amid Passchendaele’s waterlogged crater-fields. For Major Alec Waley, the commanding officer…
As the years draw on, the events of the First World War slowly fade from living memory. Scattered across the globe, the…
The war devastated Vietnam and tore America apart. As the body bags returned home in their thousands, US generals – who once…