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FRON BASRA TO BAGHDAD

Following his advance to Basra as an armed escort to a BBC News...

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Britain’s KFOR mission extended to 2026

The British military is to continue its contribution to the NATO...

Despatches

An incredible grouping once belonging to a Belgian and Royal...

THE NEARST GUARD

Christopher Joll goes back in time to find out

Those watching the recent coronation may have noticed the Princess...

Christopher Joll goes back in time to find out

CHINA CRISIS

Austin Ruddy

MILITARIA A respected British industry faced serious challenges...

Austin Ruddy

Gurkha becomes first double amputee to summit Everest

A Gurkha who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan in 2010 has...

THE LAST DIVISION

BCFK BY NUMBERS The Anglo-Commonwealth deployment to Korea was...

To the Ruhr and back

Andrew Thomas examines the part played by one squadron as Bomber...

Military Histor y with Pete and Gary

No.16 After recording a recent podcast, Gary and I...

New memorial marks B attle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Atlantic Memorial unveiled by HRH The Princess...

SAS embassy siege hero dies

Members of the SAS forcing entry into the embassy on May 5, 1980,...

Guinness and gremlins

JOHN A SMITH

GREMLINS IN ITALY How an advert for a world-famous beer inspired...

JOHN A SMITH

British Coast al Forces

Norman Friedman

BOOK OF THE MONTH Two World Wars and After The Royal...

Norman Friedman
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500lb’er disrupts HS2 works

A World War Two bomb was disposed of in a controlled explosion...

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YOUR VOICE Renegades and moles 'Britain at War' Magazine, PO...

The man who brought news of war

Dr Andrew Sangster

He rose from the peripheries to become one of the most important...

Dr Andrew Sangster

HERO OF THE MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Temporar y Lieutenant Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton GC ...

Lord Ashcroft

From the Editor

Brigadier Douglas Kendrew, Major-General Mike West, Lieutenant-Colonel...

70 year first for RM Commandos

its 41 Commando forebears more than 70 years ago IMAGES: ROYAL...

IMAGE OF WAR

LIFESAVING LANCASTER A&AEE Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, circa 1948...

IMAGE of WAR

Redlynch, Salisbury Plain, March 1941

IN PLAIN SIGHT Although a mainstay of any modern military,...

Redlynch, Salisbury Plain, March 1941

Airman silhouettes honour dam raiders

The International Bomber Command Centre has installed a new tribute...

Work progresses on Whirlwind replica

Crikey!Alex Bowers meets the creators behind a full-size replica...

SAVIOURS of the LOST ART

John Ash

One of Britain’s newest military units has the complex task...

John Ash

ADAP TABLE ANIMAL

WEAPONS OF WAR When British brain met American automotive brawn,...

‘Little ships’ mark coronation

RIIS 1, at 103 the oldest craft at the rallySIMON MURDOCH London’s...

Hell on the Hook

Michael Kelly

BATTLE OF THE SAMICHON RIVER In the final hours of Korean War,...

Michael Kelly

Bombs& Botany

Craig Moore burrowed deep into the archives to unearth how the...

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