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ATTACK AND PURSUE

OPERATION CRUSADER BY NUMBERS Directed at relieving the beleaguered...

Go like the Devil

A unique blend of speed and versatility made the Abdiel-class...

Award bombardment for All Quiet On The Western Front film

NETFLIX Netflix’s powerful World War One drama All Quiet On...

Despatches

The medals of one of World War One’s greatest fighter aces...

IMAGE of WAR

AIR MINISTRY/IWM/GETTY Fully armed ‘Flat Iron’ RAF Coltishall,...

Menin Gate to be restored

THE MENIN GATE IS TO UNDERGO A TWO-YEAR RESTORATION JOHAN BAKKERThe...

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Opening the tally

The lead photograph in Gloster’s Prize Fighter (BAW, March...

High street strategy

Eighty years ago this April, the first operational SIGSALY machine...

Snow Queens

PHOTO: CPL NANDA ATHERTON RLC/MOD THE QUEENS ROYAL HUSSARS BRAVED...

Field Post

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

Training for Anything

THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT The Parachute Regiment includes some of...

From the Battlefield to the Big Screen

Audie Murphy, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Dirk Bogarde...

NZ retires venerable sub hunters

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has marked the retirement of...

TELL EVERYONE LEAVE IS CANCILLED

JOHN ASH AND TOM BAKER

THE BATTLE OF BASRA In March 2003, the tanks of the Royal Scots...

JOHN ASH AND TOM BAKER

The one that almost got away

One fugitive Luftwaffe pilot came within 150 miles of freedom...

Gloster’s Prize Fighter

Michael E Haskew profiles the RAF ’s last biplane fighter –...

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UXO s may threaten Hull developments

Major redevelopment projects in and around the East Yorkshire...

British tanks to lead huge increase in Ukraine support

On January 16, 2023, following an earlier statement from the...

The ace that never was

FORGOTTEN ACE Graham Hulse was most successful RAF pilot of the...

Desert Armour

Robert Forczyk

Tank Warfare in North A frica: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader,...

Robert Forczyk

Military History with Pete and Gary

No.1 2 When it comes to British generals of World War One, the...

HRH marks London Guards formation

BRITISH ARMY/MOD HRH The Earl of Wessex, Royal Colonel of the...

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Happy Birthday Home Guard!

I volunteer at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, where on May...

A HER O NA MED

‘ TUBBY ’ The loss of HMS Turbulent 80 years ago signalled...

Naval Eyewitnesses

The Experience of War 1939-1945 At the outbreak of...

From the Editor

CHALLENGER 2 TANKS OF THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS REST UP...

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Active veterans ‘pass torch’

There was a poignant twist at the ceremony to cut the first steel...

TELIC TIMELINE

THE BATTLE OF BASRA Charting the events leading up to the 17-day...

IMAGE of WAR

Brigand blues The skies above Filton, Gloucestershire, circa...

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Austin J Ruddy

Simple directional signs gained a whole new significance during...

Austin J Ruddy