Think of something appropriately witty for this picture from our article on Soviet sniper Roza Shanina (MHM 84), and leave your caption…
The July issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is now on sale. To subscribe to the magazine click here. To…
Despite a succession of victories during the Second World War, Conservative leader Winston Churchill faced a crushing defeat in Britain's 1945 general…
Everything crazy is sane and all that is sane is crazy.…
Patrick Boniface examines the lives of history’s most daring wartime captives. Roger Joyce Bushell was born on 30 August 1910 in Springs,…
'The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war,' Churchill wrote, 'was the U-boat peril.'…
Symphony No.7 became a national symbol of resistance to the German invasion, and the Soviets were eager to export it to the…
Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting…
One of the key questions often asked about Leni Riefenstahl is was she Hitler’s lover? Rumours of an affair were common at…
‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ So spoke J Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who developed the atom bomb. Marking…