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ATTACK AND PURSUE

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

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Go like the Devil

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

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Award bombardment for All Quiet On The Western Front film

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

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Despatches

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

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IMAGE of WAR

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

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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...

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High street strategy

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

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Snow Queens

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

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Field Post

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

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Training for Anything

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

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From the Battlefield to the Big Screen

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

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NZ retires venerable sub hunters

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

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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
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The one that almost got away

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

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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...

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British tanks to lead huge increase in Ukraine support

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

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The ace that never was

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

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Desert Armour

Robert Forczyk

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

Robert Forczyk
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Military History with Pete and Gary

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

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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...

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A HER O NA MED

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

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Naval Eyewitnesses

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

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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...

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TELIC TIMELINE

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

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IMAGE of WAR

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

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Austin J Ruddy

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

Austin J Ruddy