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Flashpoints: Air Warfare in the Cold War

In this weighty, beautifully printed book, the author outlines...

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From the Editor

PRINCESS ELIZABETH, COLONEL-IN-CHIEF OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS,...

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Inside Your Magazine

Next Month November 2022, Issue 187 On Sale October...

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King’s ship is salvageable: raise the ‘Bronington’!

The stricken minesweeper that was once commanded by King Charles...

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Field Post

YOUR VOICE 'Britain at War' Magazine, PO Box 100, Stamford, Lincolnshire,...

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FLYING CAN OPENER S

THE SECOND EL ALAMEIN During the Battle of Alamein, a South African...

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In Memoriam

On September 9, 2022, in his first address to the nation as sovereign,...

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Britain’s Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins during the Second World War

Andrew Chatterton

BOOK OF THE MONTH HAD Britain been invaded during World War Two,...

Andrew Chatterton
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WAR OF THE UNKNOWN WARRIORS

Austin J Ruddy

MILITARIA An army of civil services stood tall in the face of...

Austin J Ruddy
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Grenade cache found in Bristol garden

Police were called to a walled garden in Henleaze, Bristol, on...

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Spirit of The Few

A new memorial inspired by an iconic Battle of Britain photograph...

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IMAGE of WAR

Britain’s nuclear dawn GRANGER/ALAMY Trimouille...

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We Are Amused

HM QUEEN ELIZABETH II: 1926-2022 Recollections of Queen Elizabeth...

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Yorkshire Air Museum

Collections George Colcough headed to Elvington and discovers...

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The Unseen Falklands War

The chronological history of the Falklands conflict has been...

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Veteran, 102, reunited with Repulse bell

MARINE JIM WREN AND THE BELL OF HMS REPULSE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF...

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Militar y History with Pete and Gary

No.7 Recently, we have been thinking over our perceptions...

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Recognition for Canada’s ‘Bletchley Park’

The existence of Canada's first cryptographic bureau has been...

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COLDITZ HEROES & VILLAINS

Robert Verkaik and John Ash

INSIDE COLDITZ Played out within the walls of Colditz was a perilous...

Robert Verkaik and John Ash
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Desert ‘ top gun’

THE SECOND EL ALAMEIN John Ash pays tribute to remarkable pilot...

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LAUGH OR CRY: FLGHTING IN THE TRENCHES

LAUGH OR CRY: PART IV If the trench experience wasn’t nightmare...

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Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners

Many histories focusing on the war in the Pacific are titled...

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HERO OF THE MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Flight Lieutenant Michał Karol Maciejowski DFC, DFM ...

Lord Ashcroft
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New sub for fleet: RAN sailors to join crew

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Boris Johnson, with...

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Despatches

A VC awarded for “one of the most daring feats ever attempted”...

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Pay ing the debt

THE SECOND EL ALAMEIN Eighty years ago at El Alamein, General...

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LONDON BR IDGE IS DOWN

HM QUEEN ELIZABETH II: 1926-2022 The many preparations for The...

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The Shackle Scrap

THE BATTLE OF BOWMANVILLE Eighty years ago, what began on the...

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Wheeled STEEL

WEAPONS OF WAR An early innovation in armoured fighting vehicles...

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High seas rescue

AN RAF POSEIDON MRA.1 HAS COMPLETED THE TYPE’S FIRST SEARCH...