Warfare

Warfare in News

View Image

JOURNEY'S END by R C SHERIFF

CLASSIC WW1 PLAY COMES FOR THE FIRST TIME TO IEPER! • First World War play JOURNEY'S END will be performed live in the Belgian Battlefields for the first time this Autumn to mark 100… Read full story...

View Image

Launch Event: The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!”

Written Message from H.E. Dr. Yue Xiaoyong, Chinese Ambassador to Ireland, for Launching of “The Dawn of Victory, Thank You China!” (Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, 25 August 2017) Minister Joe McHugh, Cllr. Jimmy Kavanagh, Ms.… Read full story...

View Image

Call for Papers: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War

Call for Papers: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an English-language online reference work on World War I dedicated to publishing high quality… Read full story...

View Image

JERSEY’S ‘FEW’ REMEMBERED

JERSEY’S ‘FEW’ REMEMBERED The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust has presented a copy of Men of the Battle of Britain by Kenneth G Wynn to the Société Jersiaise. The Société was founded in 1873… Read full story...

Featured Articles

Why I Wrote 'Escorting The Monarch' As Told By Author, Chris Jagger

Why I Wrote 'Escorting The Monarch' As Told By Author, Chris Jagger

Wed 18th October

Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of my dad dressed from head to toe in police motorcycle uniform and white crash helmet...
Read Article...

Peter Stone - How I wrote My Book

Peter Stone - How I wrote My Book

Mon 25th September

In writing my new book The History of the Port of London – A Vast Emporium of All Nations I could explore aspects of two of my passions: the development of London as a city, as well as waterborne transport.
Read Article...

100 Years On: Passchendaele in Colour

100 Years On: Passchendaele in Colour

Fri 28th July

Just over a year ago I published a blog of photos taken during the battle of the Somme in 1916. This week marks the centenary of another famous and bloody battle of the First World War, the Battle of Passchendaele, which began on 31st July 1917.
Read Article...

A Great Australian: Wing Commander Noel Constantine Remembered

A Great Australian: Wing Commander Noel Constantine Remembered

Tue 25th July

A forgotten Spitfire Ace inspired the Allies’ fight for air supremacy in Burma
Read Article...

Latest Reviews

Air Battle for Burma

Air Battle for Burma (book)

Released: 21st November 2016

Spitfires soar over a landscape of desperation and isolation - as with Bryn's previous book on the Desert Air Force, this work is a revelation, even for those who are familiar with Military History. There… Read full review...

Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy

Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy (book)

Released: 21st November 2016

The Air Battle for Burma is an excellent account of the history of the Allied efforts to defend Burma from a seemingly invincible foe. While the air battles that raged over Burma are the main… Read full review...

Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy

Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy (book)

Released: 21st November 2016

The book Air Battle for Burma surpassed Bryn's excellent "The Decisive Campaigns of the Desert Air Force 1942-1945". I am ashamed to say I was not aware of the detail he supplied in his magnum… Read full review...

Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy

Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy (book)

Released: 21st November 2016

Air Battle for Burma …. An excellent book about the air war over Burma. Read full review...

Dates in History

Battle of Leipzig ends

19th October 1813

The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations, fought between the 16th and 19th October 1813, was one of the most decisive defeats suffered by Napoleon I. The battle involved over 600,000 soldiers, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I. Following the defeat, Napoleon returned to France, while the Allies kept their momentum, invading France early the next year. Napoleon was forced to abdicate, and was exiled to Elba that spring.

Further Reading

1813: Leipzig
(Hardback - 352 pages)
by Digby Smith

A brilliant account of the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars that includes numerous eyewitness testimonies. Te book charts the course of the battle hour by hour. The crucial three-day battle of Leipzig, known to posterity as the Battle of the Nations, was the biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars.… Read more at Pen & Sword...

Only £30.00 at Pen & Sword Books.

Read more from this day...