Patrick Boniface on the deaths in combat of regal warriors. The savagery of the Zulu Wars showed no respect for class or…
Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, was the first woman to work for Britain as a special agent during the Second World War.…
We know the story. Goaded into a hopeless war by an expanding colonial empire, thousands of warriors rise against their oppressors –…
A huge, mountainous, landlocked Central Asian state, Afghanistan has defied invaders for 2,500 years. Jules Stewart takes a look at the country’s…
The TV series Britannia (2017) is a historical fantasy along the lines of Game of Thrones. Though set at the time of…
The bloody end met by Mary Queen of Scots at the hands of her cousin Elizabeth I of England is well known.…
The December issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. In this issue: The Tudor war against Scotland…
The November issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. In this issue: Red Revolution: how did the…
The September issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To…
U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…