We asked you to think of something appropriately witty for this image taken from our article on the strategy of the Crusaders from…
This issue, we’re giving away three copies of Barbarossa, courtesy of Headline Publishing. Drawing on previously unseen material from the Russian archives,…
The 115m-long Fletcher-class destroyer sank in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. Johnston led an attack…
In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…
The story of Alexander the Great, the dashing young prince who conquered vast swathes of the world before his mysterious death at…
Operation Gunnerside, as it was known, the destruction of the heavy water plant in Vemork, Norway, is just one of countless covert…
This book is beautifully written, brilliantly structured, immensely moving, and deeply disturbing. It cannot be recommended strongly enough – especially for those…
We asked you to think of something appropriately witty for this image taken from our article on the rise of airpower in the…
Aircraft in WWI initially played a reconnaissance role, but by the war's end was essential in the support of ground operations, attacks,…
The April/May 2021 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is…









