The end: Vietnam, 1973

Fifty years ago this spring, the last American troops left Vietnam. Taylor Downing looks back on a conflict that ended in humiliation for the US.…

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Museum Review: Muckleburgh Military Collection

Open 10am-5pm daily (1 April to 30 October)Weybourne, Norfolk, NR25 7ERwww.muckleburgh.co.uk+ 44 (0)1263 588 210 The Muckleburgh Military Collection is the largest privately owned military museum in the United Kingdom. It was opened to the public in 1988 by Michael Savory and his father Squadron Leader Berry Savory, who had…

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Military history exhibitions, events, and festivals – March listings

Festivals IWM Duxford flying season: 50th anniversary April-October 2023IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire, CB22 4QR, UKwww.iwm.org.uk/duxford-air-shows-50+44 (0)20 7416 5000 In the summer of 1973, ‘Duxford Air Day’ was first staged at the historic aerodrome in Cambridgeshire to celebrate the area’s aviation heritage. The event quickly became a permanent fixture, and it has…

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• The Peloponnesian War: how conflict tore ancient Greece apart
• Imperial firefighters: Roberts, Kitchener, and the Anglo-Boer War
• Churchill’s American arsenal: the special relationship that won World War II
• How the Scots saved France: the Battle of Baugé, 1421
• The end: Vietnam, 1973…

The Peloponnesian War

In the first part of our special, Paul Rahe examines the background to the struggle between Athens and Sparta for control of the ancient Greek world.…

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Film Review: Lebanon

Lebanon is a powerful vision of men at war, made real and intense by the fact that we never once move outside the tank, and only see the outside world from the interior.…

The Path of Peace: walking the Western Front Way

REVIEW by TOBY CLARK During the First World War, a young soldier called Douglas Gillespie used a letter home from the trenches to expound on an idea for remembering the dead after the fighting was over. Gillespie proposed a path from the English Channel to Switzerland, following the route of…

Austria-Hungary’s Viribus Unitis-class battleships

Although the Austrian navy had won a remarkable victory against the Italians at the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic on 20 July 1866, economic problems following the creation of the Dual Monarchy the following year meant that the new Austro-Hungarian navy had to struggle for funding against the competing…

Dictionary of Fortifications

REVIEW by DAVID FLINTHAM Until relatively recently, there were more terms relating to fortifications than to probably any other area of military history. Confusion is easy, especially since many of the words and phrases come directly from languages other than English. Jean-Denis Lepage has set himself the challenge of identifying…

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