If the Battle of Britain was a victory of ‘the Few’: that of a small military elite of fighter pilots, the Battle…
14 February 1945. The end of the war was months away, and excitement was in the air. National headlines boasted of imminent…
This month Keith Robinson has found a sprawling ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of an aviation museum behind a Norfolk pub. Near Bungay, close to the…
Pen & Sword, £30 ISBN 978-0719563201 Archibald Wavell, as his name implies (his grandfather, father, and son were all soldiers, and all…
Over 6ft in length, the longbow was capable of killing a man at over 200 yards. The best bows were made of…
Tony Vaccaro is one of the most respected photo-chroniclers of WWII. We look at the story behind his iconic photography. ‘My approach…
Known officially as the Infantry Tank Mark II, and less formally as the Matilda Senior or Matilda 2, this 27-ton tank wreaked…
In November 1854, The Times war correspondent William Russell, writing from the Crimea, reported that an attack by Russian cavalry had been…
The scourge of Stalingrad and perhaps the most exceptionally efficient sniper rifle of WWII, this deadly weapon was mass-produced in the Soviet…
Continuing our review of military classics, Military Times looks at A J P Taylor’s controversial publication on the causes of the Second…