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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.
MHM’s round-up of the latest military history titles
World War I Illustrated Atlas In fine and comprehensive detail, this book plots key battles and the exact course of the global land, sea, and air campaigns that made the First World
War Classics – The Second World War: An Illustrated History
MHM Editor Neil Faulkner recalls one of the great works of military history.
‘Extremely rare’ Nazi artefacts found behind wall in Germany
Sebastian Yurtseven discovered the objects in July while clearing out his aunt’s house following torrential rain and flooding in the region.
New evidence of Nazi war crimes uncovered in Poland’s ‘Death Valley’
Around 168 victims were exhumed shortly after the war, but it was long known that many other graves remained uncovered.
The Jacobite Risings
Jeremy Black analyses the military and political significance of the Jacobite Risings that punctuated British history between 1689 and 1746.
Prestonpans, 1745: the forgotten Jacobite victory
Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris Bambery researches the story.
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Museum acquires items from defender of Rorke’s Drift
At the auction, the museum acquired three lots belonging to Chard: a small archive of material relating to his life; a manuscript copy concerning the battle; and surveying and drawing instruments in a wooden case belonging to the Lieutenant.
Aftermath: life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
The defeated German soldiers who returned from the Second World War were so broken by the conflict that a specific term for them emerged. Heimkehrer were, according to Harald Jähner, battered survivors
Military history events, lectures, and exhibitions – July 2021
MHM offers a glimpse into the best military history exhibitions and experiences available to the public in July 2021, including The Tank Museum’s fair and auction, and the National Army Museum’s exhibit on West Indian servicemen.
Project to restore Waterloo hero’s monument gets funding boost
The site is dedicated to Henry Paget, who was second in command under the Duke of Wellington and leader of the allied cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The men behind the wire: British POWs in the First World War
Joseph O’Neill lifts the lid on a hidden story of POW maltreatment.
The Battle of Cerami and the Norman Conquest of Sicily
Robert C L Holmes analyses a decisive collision between two very different ways of war in the early medieval period.
Cleaning Cold War aircraft
The team from Arco Services had to abseil from the hangar’s 30m-high roof to get access to the various aircraft, which include a Vulcan bomber and an English Electric Lightning.
Bodies identified in Spanish Civil War graves excavation
The individuals were killed and buried in a civil cemetery at Almagro, in the Ciudad Real region of Spain, between 1939 and 1940.
River Kings: a new history of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
The sleepy village of Repton in south Derbyshire seems like an unlikely starting point for a voyage halfway around the world. But it is here that Cat Jarman begins her brilliant new
Barbarossa Through German Eyes
Hitler’s invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 – Operation Barbarossa – initiated a campaign of epic proportions. While the format of recounting a campaign through the recollections of individual participants is
ISU-152 self-propelled gun, Chernobyl, Ukraine
It was designed by the Soviet Union during the Second World War to take on the German Tigers and Panthers.
Firing the Generals: Lincoln v McClellan
President Abraham Lincoln and Prime Minister Winston Churchill have such iconic status as the victorious leaders of their countries in the American Civil War and World War II respectively that they often seem beyond criticism. Yet, at the height of the conflicts, they both risked all by firing their leading generals. Although Lincoln had no previous military knowledge or experience, whereas Churchill had fought in battles and witnessed war both as a soldier and war correspondent, they acted with similar decision and despatch when their generals seemed either incompetent or not to be fighting with the aggressive spirit they demanded. In the first of two articles, Nigel Jones describes Lincoln’s long search for a war-winning general, and his feud with the ultra-cautious General George B McClellan.