Military History

In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism ...

As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, El Sancudo (the mosquito), and his service in World War I...

The Field Marshal was a born commander and, besides being a gifted linguist, was mobilised as a Subaltern for the Boer War to act as a secret agent...

War is a duel written large. How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

Winston Churchill called it the unknown war. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 191418 between the Russian Empire and the...

This is not intended as a treatise on the futility of war, because that has been done before by much cleverer people. Neither is it a stirring stor...

Over 3,540 Old Cheltonians (OCs - former pupils of Cheltenham College) fought in the Great War of 1914-18, with six being awarded the Victoria Cros...

Bursting with exciting full-colour illustrations, colour artwork and contemporary photographs, this is a handy complete guide to this iconic World ...

On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogge...

In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces wor...

The First World Wars fierce battles saw the need to develop military technology beyond anything previously imagined: as exposed infantry and cavalr...

In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg of the German Secret Service drew up a list of 2,694 people believed to be living in Britain, who were known enem...

Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it we...

A riveting account of ancient Rome''s imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make-or destroy-the emperors they se...

Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign of it was a single black and white photograph th...