Verdun 1916 – Two Great Books Revealing Much About One of the Greatest Battles in History
I regret I have never ventured far into reading about the Eastern Front of World War One, in part because it seems so distant, but…
Saved at the tip! Century-old postcard from D H Lawrence
A postcard penned by celebrated English writer and poet D H Lawrence to a young woman in Nottinghamshire more than 100 years ago almost ended…
Appeasing Hitler – Book Review by Mark Barnes
Leadership is on the minds of many people in my country as we await the result of a ballot to decide who will be the…
Two German Army Groups Cut Apart – Latvia 1944
Latvia 1944: A closer look at the Red Army Operation Bagration and German Army Operation Doppelkopf The car was rumbling over the bumpy dusts roads,…
Al Majar Al Kabir – Taking Back the Town, It Wasn’t Pretty
Al Majar Al Kabir: By the time I arrived in Kuwait at the end of May 2003, the war in Iraq was declared over and…
An Account of the Attack on Camp Bastion 14th September 2012
Camp Bastion: In September 2012, I was serving with the British Army as a Combat Medic, my parent unit was 4 Armoured Medical Regiment, but…
Battle of The Tennis Court: They Dragged a Tank up a Sheer Face of a Hill
A new display at the Dorset Regiment Military Museum in the UK is dedicated to a battle that turned the tide for the British and…
Sorry to Inform You, But Not All C-47s Can Fly to Normandy
The Dakota Hunter tell us why…. We tried hard but the budget is too tight for the work still to be done, ha. Over the…
D-Day 75: Jumping Into Normandy, One Man’s Journey
D-Day 75 is without doubt going to be the biggest anniversary of the invasion to date and the world is pulling out all stops to…
Aircraft Carriers: Images of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific
The monster aircraft carriers. Since the beginnings of maritime combat, it was the battleship that commanded naval warfare. Whether they were the galleys of the…
Alex Kershaw’s Latest Book, ‘The First Wave’ Available Today
What was it like to land on D-Day in the deadliest place? Over many years, I’ve read a fair few accounts of the hell that…
150,000 Men, 900 Ships: Excavation Reveals Size of Antony & Cleopatra’s Fleet
In the years that followed, Antony was busy – he defeated the assassins who had despatched Caesar and later struck up a romance with the…