Taken from the MHM34 feature, here are 9 deposed monarchs, some of whom were quite gruesomely dethroned. Harold II (1066) The…
Dial ‘M’ for Muddle… Two of the three M-class submarines that the Royal Navy launched between 1916 and 1919 were lost with…
Dr Phil Stone outlines the Richard III Society’s views regarding the king’s burial. When the ‘Looking for Richard Project’ was devised…
Massed Musketry was central to 18th-century tactics. Infantry training – represented in manuals like this one used in our Malplaquet feature –…
It might sound a bit like a Sci-fi fantasy, but during the early 1930s the United States Navy actually operated two airships…
The Dreyse Needle Gun Daniel Sager examines this weapon’s limitations Introduced by the Prussian Army in the mid-19th century, the Dreyse…
This month we have three books and DVDs of One Woman’s War, by Eileen Younghusband, to be won! Winston Churchill immortalised the fighter pilots who…
James Brett takes issue with our interpretation of the Somme. After my pleasant surprise at your refreshingly ‘revisionist’ editorial, I was disappointed…
When the German navy captured a British Welman midget submarine in November 1943, Commander Hans Bartels set about improving its crude design…
[Competition Closed] MHM Quiz: Win one of FIVE copies of ‘Crimean War: a most desperate undertaking’
This month we have FIVE copies of Crimean War: a most desperate undertaking to be won! In the spring of 1854, British troops and…