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Military History Matters
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Can you come up with something appropriately witty for this image from our article on Napoleon from the February/March 2025 issue of Military History Matters? Leave your caption as a comment below. The best answers will be judged by our editorial team and published online in early March. Good luck! Feeling lucky? Then enter our latest competition! This issue, we are giving away three copies of Peter Caddick-Adams’ new biography of Winston Churchill, courtesy of Swift Press. Enter here ..read more
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This issue, we are giving away three copies of Peter Caddick-Adams’ new biography of Winston Churchill, courtesy of Swift Press. In his latest book, historian Peter Caddick-Adams gives us an overview of Winston Churchill’s life, from his early days as a soldier and part-time journalist through to the Second World War and beyond. Winston Churchill is the first book in a new series – ‘The Prime Ministers’ – comprising concise, engaging introductions to Britain’s past leaders. This issue, three lucky winners will each receive a copy of the book, courtesy of Swift Press. To find out more about the ..read more
Military History Matters
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The February/March 2025 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:A NATION DIVIDED With North and South pitted against one another, the beginning of the American Civil War saw a country tear itself apart, as Fred Chiaventone explains. Bridging the ‘Great Barrier’ As we continue to ..read more
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Military History Matters has curated a list of 2024’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM book awards. Our selection includes some of the best-researched, most-insightful, and most readable titles reviewed and featured in the magazine over the past year. But now we need your help to select the winners! Gold, silver, and bronze prizes are up for grabs in the race for MHM Book of the Year, which will be awarded to the title our readers feel has made the greatest all-round contribution to the study of military history. Read a review of each nomi ..read more
Military History Matters
1M ago
Military History Matters has curated a list of 2024’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards. Our selection includes some of the best-researched, most-insightful, and most-readable titles reviewed and featured in the magazine over the last year. But we need your help to select the winners! Gold, silver, and bronze prizes are up for grabs in the race for MHM Book of the Year, which will be awarded to the title our readers feel has made the greatest all-round contribution to the study of military history. Read the reviews of all 12 tit ..read more
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This issue, we are giving away three copies of Henry V: the astonishing rise of England’s greatest warrior king by Dan Jones, courtesy of Head of Zeus. Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms large over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond, in part because of his against-the odds victory at the Battle of Agincourt. Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan Jones’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is ..read more
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Can you come up with something appropriately witty for this image from our article on the Allies in 1944 from the December 2024/January 2025 issue of Military History Matters? Leave your caption as a comment below. The best answers will be judged by our editorial team and published online in early January. Good luck! Feeling lucky? Then enter our latest competition! We’re giving away three copies of Henry V: the astonishing rise of England’s greatest warrior king by Dan Jones. Enter here ..read more
Military History Matters
3M ago
The December 2024/January 2025 issue of Military History Matters, the British military history magazine, is out now. The best way to access the magazine is to subscribe. Click here to find out more. To read the digital archive, click here. You can also access the magazine online (as well as exclusive extra content) at our new website, The Past. IN THIS ISSUE:Clive in India Stephen Roberts reveals how Robert Clive, victor of the Battle of Plassey in 1757, became one of the founders of British India – but left a legacy of controversy. Could the Allies have won in 19 ..read more