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RUSSIA'S WAR ON EVERYBODY

THE STORY OF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AND HOW AND WHY MOSCOW PUSHES FOR POWER AND INFLUENCE FAR BEYOND UKRAINE

MOUNTED & MOTORISED

In October 1915 the Cavalry and Motor branches were created to be more mobile than the infantry brigade companies

Heroes of the Victoria Cross ERNEST 'SMOKEY'SMITH

In October 1944, as the Allies fought to establish a bridgehead across Italy's Savio River, a roguish private challenged an armoured column

GOING INTO LOCKDOWN

Helen Carr explores the measures used across the centuries to curb the spread of the deadliest disease in human history

THE SHADOW OF DEATH DESCENDS

Originating in eastern or central Asia, plague ravaged Europe - and people were helpless to stop it spreading

SHERMAN THE MAKING OF A WAR WINNER

The M4 Sherman medium tank was produced in huge numbers during WWII and became the Allies' most prominent yet controversial land weapon of the conflict

WHAT IF...HANNIBAL HAD TAKEN ROME?

Professor Greg Woolf talks to Nige Tassell about what might have happened to Rome and the Romans had the Carthaginian military mastermind managed to conquer the city

PUNISHMENT FROM ON HIGH

An unshakeable certainty that the plague was God's punishment for sin led to desperate, and terrible, measures

'WE HAVE THE MAXIM'

Early machine guns were used by British forces during the 'Scramble for Africa' but the British Army was slow to fully realise their lethal potential

HOW TO FIGHT A WAR Q+A WITH DR MIKE MARTIN

The former British Army officer and senior visiting fellow at King's College London reveals how and why wars are fought, from the ancient world to Ukraine and beyond

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF...T.E. LAWRENCE

In late 1916, a little-known archaeologist arrived in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. What started as a trouble-shooting mission would transform the Middle East

WWII THIS MONTH...FEBRUARY 1943

To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War is taking a look at some of the key events during each month of the conflict

DESERT ARMOUR TANK WARFARE IN NORTH AFRICA

FROM BEDA FOMM TO OPERATION CRUSADER 1940-41, THIS THOROUGH STUDY OF ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE WESTERN DESERT IS A WORTHY ADDITION TO ANY ENTHUSIAST’S SHELF

JIHADI POLITICS

A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BLOODY INFIGHTING WITHIN THE GLOBAL JIHADI MOVEMENT THAT SET AL-QAEDA AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE, WITH CONSEQUENCES THAT ARE STILL FELT TODAY

GRIEF AND DESPERATION

The Black Death triggered untold panic across Europe, causing people to desert their loved ones and seek out scapegoats

ANGLO-MARATHA WARS

This series of conflicts bet een the British East India Company and the Maratha Confederacy stretched over 40 years. The eventual destruction of the Confederacy helped Britain tighten its grip on subcontinent

ANGLO-MYSORE WARS

From the 1760s to the 1790s, the East India Company fought a series of conflicts against the Kingdom of Mysore. The kingdom’s final defeat in 1799 greatly _ assisted the British in their eventual domination of India

ROAD TO REBELLION

How the Duke of Monmouth tried in vain to rescue his nation from the oppressive clutches of James II

ANGLO-SIKH WARS

Between 1845-46 and 1848-49 two conflicts were fought between the forces of the East India Company, supported by troops from the British Army, and those of the Sikh Empire in the Punjab

NEED TO KNOW WORLD WAR II AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE

A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO HOW THE UNITED STATES DEVELOPED ITS CODEBREAKING AND SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS DURING THE GLOBAL CONFLICT

THE GREATEST VIKING: THE LIFE OF OLAV HARALDSSON

A FINE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR MOST DISTINGUISHED POPULAR HISTORIANS

FIVE HISTORY LESSONS FOR PUTIN

Dr Mark Galeotti is an honorary professor at University College London's School of Slavonic & East European Studies and has published numerous books on Russian security, foreign policy and state criminality. An expert on the Russosphere, both past and present, his latest book, Putin's Wars, analyses how President Vladimir Putin's military campaigns have reshaped the nation and the world. In light of Russia's globally condemned invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, here he gives his assessment of the lessons that the president ought to have learned from his country's own military history, from Nicholas II to Ivan 'the Terrible'.

CHURCHILL'S AMERICAN ARSENAL

A METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED CELEBRATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN WARFARE BROUGHT ABOUT BY ANGLO-AMERICAN COOPERATION IN WORLD WAR II

COMPANY ARMIES

The East India Company’s formidable private armies were vital to the expansion of British interests in the subcontinent

JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: THE UNION ARMY

THE EXPERIENCES OF JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE UNION ARMY COME INTO FOCUS IN THIS COMPREHENSIVE BOOK

HYBRID WARRIORS

TRACING THE TRAJECTORY OF THE UKRAINE CONFLICT FROM THE BOTTOM UP TO REVEAL THE INNER WORKINGS OF VLADIMIR PUTIN'S KREMLIN

LAST STAND OF THE WAFFEN-SS

In the closing months of the war in Europe, the Waffen-SS fought desperately to secure Hitler victory. When they failed he disowned them

HERSHEL 'WOODY' WILLIAMS

In February 1945, as US Marines struggled to overcome lwo Jima’s relentless Japanese defenders, a 21-year-old corporal silenced seven pillboxes to help turn the tide of the battle

LEE MILLER

Among the most iconic and acclaimed photojournalists and correspondents of the Second World War, Miller went from the front page of Vogueto the frontline of the Normandy invasion

100 years of the BBC

Martin Pipe : revisits the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation, via technical innovations including colour TV, NICAM stereo, the iPlayer... and Ceefax