Balaklava is one of the most famous battles in British history. Yet it cannot really be compared with, say, Hastings, Waterloo, or…
Roberts begins with a personal hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. There seemed to be an array of qualities that made the general great, including…
The Battle of Waterloo is intrinsically linked to the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon, the towering military figures of the early 19th…
The Chicago-born ‘slider’ became the youngest Olympic gold medallist ever as a 16-year-old at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St Moritz. Four…
Max Hastings, noted historian and journalist, is a titanic force in British history, with 27 books to his name – many of…
More than 2,000 years after his death, the name of Hannibal continues to resonate with modern audiences. Yet today, few recall the…
The March issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. To subscribe…
In the 1950s, the Cold War was at its height. To many, it seemed to be a question of when, rather than…
Like a sort of Second World War smorgasbord, you can take a look and pull tasty morsels out of Hidden Places of…
Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…