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THE TANK MUSEUM

The Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset holds the national collection...

Dutch Authorities Confirm Wrecks Plundered

Concerns for British Wrecks Rise as Japanese Ships Also Affected...

Against ALL ODDS

Lord Ashcroft

Lord Ashcroft tells one captured fighter pilot’s remarkable...

Lord Ashcroft

FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY APRIL 1917 WORLD MAP

APRIL 1917: After much political deliberation, the United States...

Stolen Gate Returned to Dachau Museum

Notorious ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Sign Returned After Appalling...

TIGER 131: Preservation of Legend

John Ash

Of all the Tiger I tanks produced, just one, Tiger 131, remains...

John Ash

The Scourge of 20 Squadron

THE SCOURGE OF 20 SQUADRON Flyer’s Death Behind German Lines...

GREAT WAR GALLANTRY April 1916

Throughout the First World War, the many announcements of British...

Wing Commander Frederick William Palmer

LORD”AESRHOC ORFO FT’S THE MONTH” Wing Commander Frederick...

Spate of UXB Finds Across South East

Four Devices Made Safe by Military in as Many Weeks ...

The Myth of ‘Bloody April’

Great War historian Peter Hart takes an objective look at the...

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Attack On The ‘Haguro’

Dear Sir I was interested to read Tom Spencer’s Letter (‘The...

A RELIC OF THE CLOTH HALL, YPRES

THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN OBJECTS NO.33 Corporal Hewing’s...

German S-Mines Uncovered On Sark

ON THURSDAY, 9 February 2017, bomb disposal officers from Guernsey...

Joint Battle to Save War Wreck

Indonesia and Australia Work to Save HMAS Perth DIVERS HAVE...

A WITCH’S CAULDRON

Recent discoveries of unexploded German bombs in Portsmouth Harbour...

IMAGE of WAR

A MOMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY Vimy Ridge, Pas-de-Calais - France,...

Lawrence of Arabia – Shifting Sands Exhibition

IN THE March 2017 issue of Britain at War we looked at the story...

THE CULT OF THE ‘TIGER ACE’

John Ash

A subject of considerable debate over the years, the status of...

John Ash

The Deck Gun Of UB–130

LETTER OF THE MONTH The wreck of UB-121 lying alongside...

GERMAN FIRST WORLD WAR IRON CROSS 1ST & 2ND CLASS

Robin Schaefer

Regular Britain at War contributor, Robin Schaefer, takes a look...

Robin Schaefer

Tiger Tank Veterans Remember

Fischer, 1943. SURVIVING GERMANS who fought in the legendary...

HMHS Anglia And The Live Bait Squadron Given Legal Protection

The Bishop of Rochester at the drum Head ceremony commemorating...

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Mercantile Marine Great War Anomaly

Dear Sir, In your November 2016 edition you highlighted how stringencies...

Occupation: Did German Commandos Strike RAF Ventnor?

Britain at War explores how commando forces might have helped facilitate a successful German invasion and how, it is alleged, one such raid in 1943 successfully made it to British shores.

U-Boat Images Released By Historic England

BRIEFING ROOM Jack Casement took this picture of UB-106...

THE CROYDON RAID

Illustration Piotr Forkasiewicz

The attack on Croydon aerodrome during August 1940 was a raid...

Illustration Piotr Forkasiewicz

Commander Loftus William Jones

LORD ASHCROFT’S “HERO OF THE MONTH” HMS...