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From the Editor

We Have Ways Festival Co-hosts Al Murray and James HollandSTUART...

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Newark’s Lancaster memorial takes shape

A proof-of-concept image of the proposed Lancaster sculptureCOURTESY...

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HE WALKED ALONE

Stuart Hadaway

ALEX ANDER LAFONE VC A cavalry squadron’s last stand and a...

Stuart Hadaway
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Neptune’s FURY

As a result of more than two years of intensive build up, D-Day’s...

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The British Cheer

Psychological warfare in the Napoleonic era Current...

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Last air VC gets overdue medal

Flying Officer John Cruickshank VC has received the Air Efficiency...

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Despatches

Highlights at recent Noonans auctions have included a naval VC,...

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Designing DESTINY

D-DAY: THE BUILD UP On June 6, 1944, the Supreme Allied...

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SCUD SEEKERS

Andrew Thomas outlines the combat missions completed by the sole...

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HERO of the MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Wing Commander John Connell Freeborn DFC & Bar Freeborn,...

Lord Ashcroft
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A ncient sites located at Cyprus base

Claire Lacombe and Andy Hyam of the University of Leicester’s...

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Debrief

We used Google Trends to find six common questions on British...

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The FRIENDLY Invasion 3,000,000 GIs

D-DAY: THE BUILD UP Men of the US Army Signal Corps...

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Best of Five… Normandy campaign memoirs

Tobias Clarke selects his five most loved memoirs recounting...

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HMS Repulse’s last sailor dies

Rear Admiral Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, with his daughter Erica...

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Gosport breaks out oldest RN ‘Jolly Roger’

The earliest known example of a Royal Navy ‘Jolly Roger’...

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The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Tom Baker sets course for The National Museum of the Royal Navy...

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A link in the chain

The discovery of a British shipwreck has taken on new significance...

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Royal Navy Home Fleet 1939-41

The last line of defence at Scapa Flow This addition...

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Two Victoria Crosses ‘vanish’ from museum

Two Victoria Crosses awarded to British soldiers of the former...

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PALLADIUM PANDEMONIUMM

A rare George Medal group linked to one of London’s most famous...

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DEVISING D-DAY

John Ash, Dr Sam Edwards and Tom Baker

D-DAY: THE BUILD UP The invasion that started the liberation...

John Ash, Dr Sam Edwards and Tom Baker
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THE MAKING OF MULBERRIES

They may be unglamorous, but the value of the artificial Mulberry...

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Military History with pete and Gary

No.26 Sometimes the dullest looking book can be a real...

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Menin Gate roof refurbished

Work to restore the Menin Gate is underwayBRESSERS ARCHITECTEN...

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Field Post

BAW goes viral! 'Britain at War' Magazine, PO Box 100, Stamford,...

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COVER & CLEAR

John Ash

As the machinations and manoeuvrings of Allied planners turned...

John Ash
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Allied Convoys to Northern Russia 1941- 1945

Politics, strategy and tactics The fraught experiences...

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‘Black Ice’ secures World Cup victory!

Last month, we reported that Corie Mapp was in position to take...

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Internment, incarceration and escape

Craig Moore reports on The National Archives’ new exhibition,...