Wartime training manuals issued to the Home Guard can be obtained at militaria collectors fairs, but...
continue reading >If ever a weapon was synonymous with the German army, it was certainly the ‘Pistole P08’,...
continue reading >Since the M-16 rifle was introduced into service with the American army during the Vietnam War,...
continue reading >British army officers during WWII were regarded by their American Allies as being either bombastic or...
continue reading >The Kremlin in Russia’s capital city of Moscow is a dominant feature that attracts tourists, the...
continue reading >The D-Day landings in Normandy are largely viewed as being an amphibious operation and, while true,...
continue reading >The landings on D-Day 6th June 1944, as incredible as they were, formed only part of...
continue reading >When considering occupied territories in WWII, we naturally tend to think of European countries, but in...
continue reading >When Lt. Colonel Blacker proposed using the spigot method of launching an anti-tank projectile his idea...
continue reading >In 1941, when Hitler launched Germany’s attack against Russia (Operation Barbarossa), he held the Russian army...
continue reading >Histories on battles or wars tend to focus on the fighting men because, after all, that...
continue reading >It is now more than 100-years since the Battle of the Some was fought and was...
continue reading >Of all the battles fought during the First World War, it is the Somme which evokes...
continue reading >The eponymous weapon about which this work is the subject, will be familiar to many ex-servicemen...
continue reading >During the course of their long histories, the Guards have been called on to serve in...
continue reading >The Battle of the Bulge is unarguably one of the most famous and best-known phases in...
continue reading >that was complicated both militarily and politically. Do not be put off by its small size...
continue reading >During WWI, the Western Front stretched from the Belgian coast on the North Sea and ended...
continue reading >During WWI India was still a unified nation and more than 1.3 million fought in all...
continue reading >On the face of things, it would seem that pitting the Churchill tank, weighing less than...
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