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Hell En Route to the Holy Land

Steve Snelling

THE GREAT WAR Intended to deliver a morale-boosting victory...

Steve Snelling

Collecting German Air-dropped Leaflets on Britain

Austin J Ruddy

MILITARIA COLLECTING Through a series of air-dropped pamphlets,...

Austin J Ruddy

Impressive Hawker Typhoon Sculpture

The Hawker Typhoon Ib model built by apprentices at the Chalke...

Combat Debut for RAF F-35s

F-35B ZM147, 617 Sqn, takes off on its first sortie to Syria,...

IMAGE of WAR

WINDRUSHED TO KOREA Southampton Docks, United Kingdom, October...

RECONNAISSANCE REPORT

ITEMS OF INTEREST Steel Wall at Arnhem The...

HERO of the MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

HERO OF THE MONTH Temporary Captain Henry John Andrews VC,...

Lord Ashcroft

Award for Vera Lynn Tribute Artist

Lorrie Brown with her award on July 3. (DAVID GARCIA PHOTOGRAPHY)...

Thunderbirds OVER BERLIN

ANDREW THOMAS

AVRO LANCASTERS NICKNAMED THE THUNDERBIRDS, 426 SQUADRON WAS...

ANDREW THOMAS

FIELD POST

LETTER OF THE MONTH Our Letter of the Month is sponsored by...

Sir Ben Kingsley’s Thank You to the Few

Actor Sir Ben Kingsley with Wg Cdr Paul Farnes on July 7. (VIA...

Heugh Battery Saved by Heavy Metal

Heugh Battery Museum’s Diane Stephens (centre) with singer...

Absent Friends?

NORMANDY 75 Dr Lachlan Grant, senior historian at the Australian...

Local VALOUR

STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT MUSEUM With a large number of battle...

Pre-Afghanistan deployment training for British Forces

TROOPS FROM the British Army’s Yorkshire Regiment have conducted...

ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

REPUTATIONS Lord Mountbatten’s force of personality and...

THE SECOND BATTLE OF VILLERS−BRETONNEUX

James Hoare

It’s sometimes said that Villers-Bretonneux was lost by the...

James Hoare

Coming Up Next Month

NEXT MONTH BRITAIN AT WAR MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE ON...

Naval Base Marks Key Role in 50 Years of Nuclear Deterrence

BRIEFING ROOM Her Royal Highness Princess Anne being...

WORLD WAR TWO’S FINEST BOMBER?

FELIX ROWE

AVRO LANCASTERS WAS THE LANCASTER TRULY SUPERIOR TO ALL OF...

FELIX ROWE

IMAGE of WAR

‘WHALE’ HUNTING Somewhere in the Atlantic, c. January 2008...

From the Editor…

WELCOME to your July issue. It’s packed with plenty of varied...

D-Day 75 – Tribute To The Veterans

BRIEFING ROOM Her Majesty The Queen and other dignitaries...

TYPHOONS on the ATTACK

PAVING THE WAY Chris Goss outlines the role played by the...

BRITAIN BENEATH THE BLITZ

Gavin Mortimer outlines how the nation coped beneath the Blitz.

THE BLITZ | HOME FRONT Predictions of horrific civilian causalities...

Gavin Mortimer outlines how the nation coped beneath the Blitz.

World-Leading Defence Firm Supports Tank Museum

BRIEFING ROOM A BATH-BASED giant of defence innovation...

Tribute to: BOMBER COMMAND

COLLECTIONS | LINCOLNSHIRE AVIATION HERITAGE CENTRE Andrew...

MOSQUITO WITH ADDED BITE

TSETSE MOSQUITO | THE RAF’S BIG GUN DAVE UNWIN EXAMINES...

Wing Commander Clive Rustin

BRIEFING ROOM ANOTHER NOTABLE Cold War pilot, Wg Cdr Clive...

MEDIUM MARK A WHIPPET

WEA PONS OF WAR IN 1918, FOLLOWING TWO YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT,...