Introducing Seema Syeda’s new series on battlefield scoops throughout the ages. The practice of recording the events of war is as old…
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History at King’s College London, has been described as ‘the outstanding British naval historian of his…
Patrick Boniface on the deaths in battle of regal warriors. According to a popular Czech tradition, before he committed himself to combat…
The Cuban Revolution of January 1959, the Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962…
The siege of Ladysmith during the Anglo-Boer war is the stuff of legends. The Boers had surrounded General Sir George White and…
The January issue of MHM, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe to the…
One lucky winner will receive a model B-24 Liberator, courtesy of Corgi. Often unfairly overshadowed by both the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the later B-29…
Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, described the desertion of the Royal Navy to Parliament in 1642 as an ‘unspeakable ill consequence…
When first approached to review Craig L Symonds’ World War II at Sea, I was somewhat ambivalent about how much value another…
David Hobbs’ carefully chosen title gives some indication of the political complexities surrounding his latest subject, as a book about the actual…