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HERO of the MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Captain Harry Cator VC, MM Captain Harry Cator VC,...

Lord Ashcroft
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Missing T-boat believed found

Experts are certain that a wreck discovered in the Aegean is...

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Tornado still brings the storm

Britain’s late Cold War-era strike aircraft of choice, the...

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Killer Capture

CAPTAIN CLIVE COLLETT MC*It should have been an intelligence...

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Whispering Walls

First World War Graffiti ~ by David CrosslandRecent archaeological...

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World’s oldest alliance turns 650

British and Portuguese service personnel formed a Guard of Honour...

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FIELD POST

YOUR VOICE The myths of Tarleton The article The Tale...

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IMAGE of WAR

Starting for Palace Buckingham Palace, London, July 31, 1953...

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PANZER~PLINKER

WEAPONS OF WAR In 1940, when an artillerystarved Britain required...

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Sikorski bronze unveiled in Midlands

A statue commemorating British ally Polish General Władysław...

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Guardians from the Rock

202 SQUADRON AT GIBRALTARGibraltar’s unique position at a strategic...

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The RAF’s Road to D-Day

Greg Baughen

BOOK OF THE MONTH The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944...

Greg Baughen
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Military History with Pete and Gary

No.17 The British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) began life...

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Broads bird back at work

One of the oldest surviving steam boats in Britain can now make...

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Game on

Alex Bowers spoke to the Canadian War Museum’s post-1945 historian...

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The Boys of the Old Brigade

THE ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA Christopher Joll delves into the history...

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A War of Empires

Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941-45 ~ by Robert Lyman ...

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Guernsey police deal with unusual UXO

A stretch of Guernsey’s south coast was closed on June 9 after...

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Standard War Rooms?

I enjoyed Andrew Sangster’s feature on General Hastings Ismay...

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S FOR SUGAR, S FOR SURVIVAL

NAXOS BEAUFIGHTER A recent attic find reveals an RAF pilot’s...

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THE MINISTRY OF HISTORY

Austin J Ruddy

MILITARIA A range of highly collectable government-published...

Austin J Ruddy
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Britain at War August 2023

The full issue in page-turning format

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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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Field Post

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

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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
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HERO OF THE MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Temporar y Lieutenant Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton GC ...

Lord Ashcroft
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From the Editor

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

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70 year first for RM Commandos

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

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IMAGE OF WAR

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

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IMAGE of WAR

Redlynch, Salisbury Plain, March 1941

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

Redlynch, Salisbury Plain, March 1941