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A ncient sites located at Cyprus base

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

Debrief

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

The FRIENDLY Invasion 3,000,000 GIs

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

Best of Five… Normandy campaign memoirs

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

HMS Repulse’s last sailor dies

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

Gosport breaks out oldest RN ‘Jolly Roger’

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

The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

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

A link in the chain

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

Royal Navy Home Fleet 1939-41

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

Britain at War May 2024

May 2024 issue of Britain at War in page-turning format is a celebrity guest edition and features a D-Day 80th anniversary special

UXO evacuation in Plymouth

The discovery of a wartime bomb prompted the evacuation of more...

UNLOCKING A SHROUDED LEGACY

Once enveloped in secrecy, subterranean tunnels in London look...

PICCADILLY PICK-UP

John Ash

CHINDIT RESCUE Eighty years ago, a hazardous rescue yielded an...

John Ash

V-Bombers

Britain’s Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War Responsible...

Sd.Kfz. 234/3 Stummel

The Tank Museum has a vast collection of armoured military vehicles,...

M18 Hellcat

The Museum of American Armor, New York, USA The Buick...

M50 Ontos

The Royal Tank Museum, Amman, Jordan Located on the...

New scheme marks Red Arrows at 60

The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team has celebrated the start of...

Field Post

'Britain at War' Magazine, PO Box 100, Stamford, Lincolnshire,...

NATO

A VERY BRITISH INSTITUTION Marking the 75th anniversar y of its...

HERO of the MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Sergeant William Bernard Traynor VC Sergeant William...

Lord Ashcroft

Lord Raglan’s Order

National Army Museum, London, UKNATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM Of the many...

LCVP Higgins Boat

The American Heritage Museum, Hudson, Massachusetts, USA ...

MOD recovers US ship’s bell

A MOD Salvage and Marine Operations (SALMO) team has raised the...

LAUGH OR CRY: ADVANCE TO VICTORY

LAUGH OR CRY: PART XII In this final instalment, Peter Hart and...

Women in Intelligence

Dr Helen Fry

The Hidden History of Two World Wars Dr Helen Fry has...

Dr Helen Fry

A LOVE FOR MUSEUMS

COVER IMAGE: Phil Loder Alright, listen up: in your hands is...

General Wtadystaw Sikorski's uniform

The Polish Army Museum, Warsaw, Poland THE POLISH ARMY...

Battle of Waterloo Diorama

The Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester, Hampshire, UK ...

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‘Black Ice’ slides to victory

Britain at War sends congratulations to former Household Cavalryman...