An unequal contest?
In the second part of our series, Graham Goodlad reviews the organisation, tactics, and weaponry of the two armies.
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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.
Road to Culloden
Onwards and upwards a timeline tracing the developing fortunes and many incarnations of America's air force in the 2oth century.
MHM Book Awards 2026
The ballots have been cast, the votes counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book Awards. We curated a list of 2025’s best military history titles, and asked you, our readers, to vote for your…
Approaching Armageddon: When the Cold War turned hot – Part 1: Korea, 1950
Just before dawn on Sunday 25 June 1950, following a brief bombardment, the 150,000-strong army of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, backed by Soviet Russia, crossed the border and invaded its southern neighbour, the Republic of Korea, backed…
War on Film – Pressure
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film and television releases.
War Classics – Sagittarius Rising
For a baby boomer brought up on the Biggles stories of Captain W E Johns, the opening pages of this classic memoir of World War aviation seem eerily familiar. Cecil Lewis and his schoolfriend decide to enlist in the RFC at the age of 16.
In Brief
MHM’s round-up of the latest military history releases.
German Aircraft Weaponry
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the Luftwaffe was almost as heavily dependent on rifle-calibre machine-guns as the Imperial German Air Service had been in 1918. The Battle of Britain demonstrated the limitations of such weapons. By…
Information at War: a communication history of the Ministry of Information 1939-1946
The Ministry of Information was one of the most remarkable government creations of the Second World War. It was given a global remit to spread information, essentially propaganda, to allies and neutrals around the world, with major centres in Buenos…
Spectre of Invasion: the Royal Navy and the defence of Britain’s coast 1900-1918
Steve Dunn is the author of 15 books, mostly on specific aspects of World War I at sea, from the Dover Patrol to the defence of the Western Approaches. In Spectre of Invasion, he has turned his hand to a…
Nineteen Days in Autumn: a new history of 1066
It’s a rip-roaring start, with three deaths in five pages as Harald Hardrada (or Haraldr Sigurdarson as he’s termed here), Tostig (wayward brother of Harold Godwinson), and an unnamed farmer all get decapitated. We start on a battlefield, yet not…
How Albert Speer fooled the world
He was Hitler’s favourite architect and the man responsible for Germany’s wartime production – yet Albert Speer tried to portray himself as the ‘Good Nazi’. Sixty years after his release from Spandau, Nigel Jones examines his role in the regime’s atrocities.
MHM 154 Competition
Put your military history knowledge to the test with our competition and crossword.
Drawn on the Western Front: Paul Sarrut and the Indian Army
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions, with Peter Popham.
Letters shed new light on the Napoleonic Wars
The National Army Museum has obtained three important archival collections containing soldiers’ first-hand accounts of the Napoleonic Wars. The first is an account of the Waterloo campaign by Lieutenant and Captain Henry Weyland Powell. In it, he details events from…
WWI military cemetery found in the Carpathian Mountains
Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology and the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology have located a military cemetery containing the remains of soldiers killed during battles in the Carpathian Mountains between 1914 and 1915. The discovery began when the…
Excavations reveal traces of the fight for Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 17 June 1775, was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the American Revolutionary War. On the night of 16 June, around 1,200 colonial militiamen built an earthen fort,…
Archaeologists uncover rare Roman military camp in Slovakia
A Roman marching camp covering c.7.4ha has been found near the town of Šurany, in south-western Slovakia. The discovery – which came about through an extensive ongoing archaeological project carried out by the Archaeological Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences,…
House of Secrets opens to the public
A new museum, Trent Park House of Secrets, opened in north London this summer. The former stately home in Enfield witnessed some of the most important events of the 20th century. In the 1920s, Trent Park was the home of…
War of Words – ‘Frank’
with Marc DeSantis
‘Fighting Bob’ and the ‘Grenadier in Petticoats’
Major-General Sir Robert Sale and his wife Lady Florentia were Victorian celebrities, famed for their bravery on the Indian subcontinent. Patrick Mercer goes in search of a couple who became a byword for gritty colonial glamour.
Tessa Dunlop
The winner of MHM’s 2026 Book of the Year award on time travel, iconic women, and the complexity of conflict.
MHM 154 Letters – September
Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.
The constants of warfare
In his new book, Iain MacGregor examines some of the most significant battles of the past 3,000 years. Here, he reveals the five key factors that shaped victory, from Marathon to Midway.