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The bridge that saved a city: The Iron Curtain fall – Part 5: the Berlin Airlift

Continuing our series on the coming of the Cold War, Taylor Downing examines the first major confrontation with the Soviets.

War on Film – Number 24

Taylor Downing reviews the latest film releases.

OPPOSITE The Battle of Trafalgar (1836) by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield. The artist has chosen to depict the duel between HMS Victory, HMS Temeraire, and, between them, the French ship Redoubtable.

Britain’s greatest naval victory

Military History Matters' Neil Faulkner analyses Nelson’s culminating tactical masterpiece.

Below A German U boat shells a British merchantman in the First World War. German submarines represented a new kind of maritime warfare and a mortal threat to British supply lines.

Defeating the Kaiser’s U-boats: British Anti-Submarine Weapons, 1914-1918

David Porter, MHM ’s military technology specialist, analyses the Royal Navy’s victory in the first ‘Battle of the Atlantic’.