Warfare in News
The International Bomber Command Centre set to open December 2017
The International Bomber Command Centre, set to open December 2017 (IBCC) is being created to provide a world-class facility to serve as a point for recognition, remembrance and reconciliation for Bomber Command. At the… Read full story...
US Navy fires Tomahawk missile 7 April 2017 By Paul Ridgway, London
US Navy fires Tomahawk missile 7 April 2017 By Paul Ridgway, London USS Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the US 6th Fleet area of… Read full story...Featured Articles
The Battle of Falkirk, 1298
Thu 25th MayThe Battle of Falkirk, which took place on 22 July 1298, was one of the most important engagements of the Scottish Wars of Independence...
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Wittmann versus Ekins
Wed 17th MayWith the opening of the Tiger exhibition at the Tank Museum in Dorset it was inevitable that the discredited TV theory that tanks of the 27th Sherbrooke Fusiliers knocked out the German panzer ace Michael Wittmann would resurface somewhere.
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Dual Perspectives: Second World War drawings by architect-veterans from Russia and Britain
Tue 2nd MayRussian-British art exhibition 04 May -04 June 2017 Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
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The 37th Division at Arras
Wed 5th AprilA Pen and Sword title with an exceptionally vivid, first-hand account of the battle of Arras is Despatch Rider on the Western Front 1915-18, the diary of Sergeant Albert Simpkin MM, edited by his great nephew, David Venner
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Latest Reviews
Air Battle for Burma - Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy (book)
Released: 21st November 2016The 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 (book)
Released: 21st November 2016The 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 (book)
Released: 21st November 2016Air Battle for Burma …. An excellent book about the air war over Burma. Read full review...