INTO THE FIRE
Jim Penny miraculously survived the destruction of his Lancaster over Berlin...
Additional words Nigel Price
MILITARIA: Glory Days
Genuine period items relating to the Battle of Britain can still be found today...
Austin J Ruddy
SICILY ’43: THE OVERLOOKED INVASION
James Holland argues that the battle for Sicily has been unfairly eclipsed...
James Holland
RECEIVERS AND DECEIVERS
Operation Fortitude South was a secret campaign by the Allied forces to mislead Germany...
James Hoare
“GET YOUR ’ANDS UP”
A Yorkshire farmer’s wife who captured an armed German airman...
ANDREW THOMAS
HERO OF THE MONTH: Major-General George Alexander Renny VC
Lord Ashcroft presents Britain at War's September 2020 Hero of the Month...
Lord Ashcroft
WEAPONS OF WAR: Improvised & Emergency Grenades
Across 1914-1915, the British Army was experiencing a severe shortage in hand grenades...
Rob Langham
BATTLE OF BRITAIN AT 80: Leading the Pack
For the men of 32 Squadron, the Battle of Britain began a week early...
ANDREW THOMAS
THE LONG RUN OF ROYAL NAVY RUM
To mark the 50th anniversary of Black Tot Day...
Adam Headley
CAPTURING HIMMLER
A simple bureaucratic error and the vigilance of British forces...
Bill Steadman
VJ DAY 75: VICTORY IN THE EAST
Peter Caddick-Adams describes the last 100 days of the Pacific War...
Voices of Hope
As a tribute to the late Dame Vera Lynn, we chart her career...
Melody Foreman
Echoes of the Past
Dene Bebbington profiles two ‘ghost’ villages evacuated...
Dene Bebbington
VALOUR IN WARZONE D
When ambushed in the Vietnamese jungle, a young soldier fought to save his comrades...
Michael Kelly
VJ DAY 75: LIBERATED FROM HELL
Steve Snelling relates the personal experiences of VJ Day through the eyes...
Steve Snelling
STARS IN BATTLEDRESS
Keeping up morale in conflict zones remained important...
Mike Haskew
Militaria: Feeding The Guns
This month we profile a range of collectable objects...
Austin J Ruddy
HERO OF THE MONTH: Flt Lt Beauchamp Proctor VC
Hero of the Month for August 2020...
Lord Ashcroft
WEAPONS OF WAR: Blue Steel Nuclear Missile
Avro’s Blue Steel nuclear standoff missile...
Michael E Haskew
HERO OF THE MONTH: Captain James Edgar Leach VC
Captain James Edgar Leach VC...
Lord Ashcroft
A Game of Cat & Morse; Part 2
Just half an hour’s drive north of Bletchley Park, another estate became vital in the covert war effort...
James Hoare
The Mouse Who Beat the Bulldog
In a landslide election result, Britons chose the seemingly unassuming Clement Attlee over Winston Churchill...
John Ash
GUERRILLA GAMEKEEPERS & SCALLYWAG SABOTEURS
Had Swastika flags ever lined The Mall, then a fortnight of violence...
Andrew Chatterton