Military History

Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was...

Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the wo...

Within hours of the outbreak of the Second World War, Winston Churchill took up office as First Lord of the Admiralty. The same day the liner Athen...

While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Groups 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable...

Zbysek Necas was just 18, and still a high school student, when he escaped from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a month before the outbreak...

Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occu...

Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival researc...

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Sarah Kennedy watched as her husband, D.N., left for Mississippi, leaving her alone to care for their six childre...

Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so cos...

This is the true story of 21 young men desperately trying to survive the most brutal leadership course of modern times. A throw back to the Highlan...

The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings...

Hull Rifles looks at the 4th East Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War and examines the origins of the battalion and its history over the three ...

'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.'JON FAINEThis edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as ...

One of the main dangers to Britain during the Second World War was the possibility of the country being starved out of the war. Indeed, it was what...