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Best of five… on Colditz

AT EASE Charles Rollings picks his top five books about the iconic...

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From the Editor

A Canadian infantryman crosses a ruined street in Ortona LOYAL...

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D-Day 80: New memorial takes centre stage

D-Day 80 is a large-scale celebration of the Allied personnel...

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Canada’s Stalingrad

THE BATTLE OF ORTONA In December 1943, the Canadians vied with...

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QUANTIFYING COUNTERFACTUAL MILITARY HISTORY

The forces shaping human history are complex, but conscious acts,...

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PORTS IN A STORM

Austin J Ruddy

MILITARIA For Britain’s ports and shipyards, World War Two...

Austin J Ruddy
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RN helos hunt stealth cor vette

Two Royal Navy helicopters have tracked a stealth ship during...

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MOSQUITOES WITH STINGS

writes Tom Baker

A dedicated team of volunteers at the Portsmouth Naval Base Property...

writes Tom Baker
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Brother Hood

It was a stunning loss of life and one of the Royal Navy’s...

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Highway to Hell

Image of warExercise Baana, Tervo Road Base, Finland, September...

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Britain at War December 2023

The full issue in page-turning format

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From the Editor

The Western Front presented the toughest challenges for Britain's...

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Historic shipyard begins expansion

Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard has begun a major ‘revamp’...

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JET AGE MUSEUM

Collections Tom Baker landed at Jet Age Museum near Cheltenham,...

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The Little Men

George McCafferty and Robert Cameron

An Afghanistan Diary “This is simply a story I felt...

George McCafferty and Robert Cameron
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Military History with Pete and Gary

No.20 Recently we recorded a podcast on the fighting of the 16th...

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Officers finish ‘world’s toughest row’

Royal Yorkshire Regiment Officers Major Simon Farley, and Captain’s...

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Despatches

Medals from the ‘forgotten’ campaign in Burma and India meet...

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The horror of Monchy

For the 3rd Cavalry Division, 1916 and early 1917 had been quiet....

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The Reconquest of Burma 1944-45

From Operation Capital to the Sittang Bend Written...

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Airborne ‘first man’ dies

Philip pictured at the 2022 Battle of battalion were sent to...

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IMAGE of WAR

Wingless wonder RAF Wick, Caithness, Scotland, April 1941 ...

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IMAGE OF WAR

DEMS the breaks HMS President, Thames Area, London, May 21,...

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DRAWING INSPIR ATION

Austin J Ruddy

MILITARIA Britain’s greatest cartoonists punched above their...

Austin J Ruddy
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Tritton’s tank design troubles revealed

Engineer and co-inventor of the tank, Sir William Tritton ALL...

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Singapore UXO sparks major evacuation

A World War Two-era bomb was disposed of in a controlled explosion...

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Inside the Poppy Factory

THE POPPY FACTORYCraig Moore visits the home of the Remembrance...

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Books of the Year

The Britain at War team picks out the top books they’ve read...

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“Unbelievable” reunion for Hurricane fitter

Jeff Brereton reunited with a Hurricane cockpit RAFA A veteran...

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Field Post

YOUR VOICE Bleating battleships 'BRITAIN AT WAR' MAGAZINE,...