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Military History Matters 150

January 15, 2026
  • The Spitfire at 90: the birth of an aviation legend
  • Verdun, 1916: the longest battle of World War I
  • Berlin, year zero: tensions in Germany’s ruined capital
  • Blood transfusion: Britain’s war-winning medical innovation
  • The American Revolution part 3: examining the crucial events of 1777-1780
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    Military History Matters 149

    November 13, 2025
  • 250th anniversary: revolution in America, the fight for independence 
  • Under the Soviet heel: the crushing of eastern Europe
  • Balkan breakdown: Bulgaria’s belated and ultimately disastrous entry into WWI
  • Lest we forget: uncovering the stories behind the UK’s war memorials
  • Assault on Shaizar: how the legendary Assassins were defeated by middle-aged women
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    Military History Matters 148

    September 11, 2025
  • From World War to Cold War: the Iron Curtain descends on post-war Europe
  • Napoleon’s turncoats: the generals who turned traitor to revolutionary France
  • Battle for Magna Carta: the first Barons’ war, 1215-1217
  • King of the Vandals: the barbarian who made Rome tremble
  • David Olusoga: weapons that changed the world, and the film 1917
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    Military History Matters 147

    July 10, 2025
  • The road to Armageddon: the Central Powers during WWI

  • Bombing Venice: inside WWII’s most delicate mission

  • The Anarchy: the first English civil war, 1135-1153

  • Switching sides: a traitorous history of military turncoats

  • Jewel of the Med: the 18th-century struggle for Menorca
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    Military History Matters 146

    May 8, 2025
  • Endgame in Japan: World War II’s devastating final act
  • Operation Downfall: the planned invasions of Japan, 1945-1946
  • The last warrior monarch: William III and the Nine Years War
  • What makes commanders switch sides? A traitorous history of military turncoats
  • A new way of war: the road to Appomattox – a technological revolution
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    Military History Matters 143

    November 14, 2024
  • Endgame WWII: could the Allies have defeated Hitler in 1944?
  • Clive in India: a legacy of controversy
  • Operation Hannibal: Germany’s ‘Little Dunkirk’
  • Napoleon’s finest hour: the triumph of Austerlitz
  • Unlocking victory: supplying the armies of the British Civil Wars
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    Military History Matters 142

    September 12, 2024
  • Napoleon at war: the rise of a military colossus
  • The last Roman: Flavius Aetius versus Attila the Hun
  • Winston at 150: Churchill and the code-breakers
  • Hidden figures: native levies in foreign wars
  • Thunder in the East: armoured warfare in Asia & the Pacific
  • Flashman: scoundrel or hero?
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    Military History Matters 138

    January 11, 2024
  • Burma ’44: was Imphal and Kohima Britain’s greatest victory?
  • The last charge: Von Bredow’s ‘Death Ride’, 1870
  • The Kaiser’s U-boats: Germany’s submarine threat
  • 1385 and all that: the failed French invasions
  • The spies who never were: double agents Brutus and Garbo
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    Military History Matters 137

    November 9, 2023
  • Europe’s apocalypse: the horror of the Thirty Years’ War
  • Cromwell’s admiral: how Robert Blake remade the navy
  • They’re coming! The invasion scares of 1805 and 1940
  • The corpse that fooled Hitler: Operation Mincemeat
  • Dark shadows: Nathan Bedford Forrest & Fort Pillow, 1864
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    Military History Matters 136

    September 14, 2023
  • Wellington at war: how Britain’s greatest general made his name
  • The British Templars: new light on a crusading warrior elite
  • Master of the dark arts: Dudley Clarke, pioneer of deception
  • In Flanders Fields: the cemeteries of WWI
  • Arminius: Hitler’s barbarian hero
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    Military History Matters 133

    March 9, 2023
  • 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
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