The June issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine click here. To access the digital edition click here. In this issue: WWI Balkan Blitzkriegs Combined German, Austrian, and Bulgarian forces wreaked destruction on Serbia and Romania during the First World War. In this month’s 15-page special, we […]
Hitler
Thinkers at War – Hitler
Iain King takes a hard look at how the First World War turned Hitler into a Fascist. The ‘Great War’ had a profound effect on all the countries which took part. Most European empires were so shaken by the conflict that they changed their whole system of government. Perhaps the country which had most reason […]
Hitler Facts: 10 little-known facts
A few facts you may not know regarding the complex, tyrannical dictator.
Hitler’s First War by Thomas Weber
Biographies of Hitler are often frustratingly vague about his experiences as a soldier in WWI. Beyond the information that he: served as a message-carrying ‘runner’ on the Western Front; achieved the rank of ‘Gefreiter’ ( not quite, as Thomas Weber assures us, the equivalent of the ‘Corporal’ or even Lance-Corporal it is often translated as); […]