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An unequal contest?
In the second part of our series, Graham Goodlad reviews the organisation, tactics, and weaponry of the two armies.
The Jacobite Wars
In the first part of our new series, Graham Goodlad explores the Jacobite movement’s early attempts to overthrow Britain’s ruling Protestant monarchy.
Only portrait Churchill formally sat for during war goes on display
The Freedom Portrait, by Frank Owen Salisbury, has joined an existing exhibition at the Churchill War Rooms in London.
Australia’s famous ‘unknown sailor’ identified after 80 years
No other sailors from HMAS Sydney were ever recovered, even after the ship’s wreckage was located in 2008.
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Military History Book Awards 2022
Military History Matters has curated a list of 2021’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards. Our selection includes some of the best-researched, most-insightful, and most-readable titles
Munich – The Edge of War
George MacKay (pictured) once again demonstrates he has the face of a wartime hero in this new adaptation of the bestselling book by Robert Harris, screened initially at the BFI London Film Festival last year and now on general release.
Vera Brittain’s wartime service medals acquired by museum
They will now form part of the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Collections.
Military History Events, Lectures, and Exhibitions in Spring 2022
Exhibitions include ‘Brothers in Arms’ at the National Army Museum, and ‘Nelson, Navy, Nation’ at the National Maritime Museum.
When France Fell: the Vichy crisis and the fate of the Anglo-American alliance
In the midst of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942, the famous war reporter Ernie Pyle arrived in the Algerian city of Oran and came across
Museum review – The Night Hunters: The Royal Navy’s Coastal Forces at War
REVIEWING THE BEST MILITARY HISTORY EXHIBITIONS
WITH Graham Goodlad.
Popular Resistance and the Fall of Imperial Japan
The Japanese surge between December 1941 and June 1942 – between, that is, Pearl Harbor and Midway – created a huge Far Eastern empire comparable with that of the Nazis in Europe.
Record of Scotland’s largest battle to be updated
The Battle of Pinkie was the last large-scale pitched battle between Scotland and England before the 1603 Union of Crowns.
War Classics: History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century
What is immediately striking reading Oman is the depth of his scholarship… These are works of exceptional length and detail.
Edward III, the Black Prince, and the Battle of Crécy
Graham Goodlad analyses the joint careers of the father and son who led England’s armies in the early campaigns of the Hundred Years War.
The Battle of Crécy, 26 August 1346
Neil Faulkner analyses the first great victory of Edward III’s new tactical system in the Hundred Years War.
Blood and Ruins: the great imperial war, 1931-1945
While many historians drill deeper into their sources and produce more detailed and specialist works, it is excellent to find one of Britain’s best Second World War historians doing the opposite. Blood
The Battle of Chinese Farm
William Stroock analyses the decisive battle of the 1973 Yom Kippur War: a massive clash of Egyptian and Israeli armour in the Sinai Desert.
Lawrence of Arabia’s Secret dispatches in the Arab Revolt, 1915-1919
Fabrizio Bagatti has made a major contribution to Lawrence of Arabia studies with the publication of this volume. Until now, we have had only the edited selection of his military dispatches published
Between Two Hells: the Irish Civil War
I am always perplexed by political commentators who suggest that the possibility of Northern Ireland being reunited with Éire or Scotland becoming independent as a result of Brexit puts us in ‘uncharted