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Adolf Hitler presents Wittmann with the Eichenlauben (Oakleaves)

WAR IN FOCUS

TO THE VICTORS, THE BEERS! September 1918 © Getty

TIMELINE OF THE... PACIFIC THEATRE

Japan’s pre-war expansion and shock attacks on the US put the Allies on the back foot, leading to a long & bloody struggle across the world’s largest ocean

JAPAN’S ROAD TO WAR

Less than a century after emerging from cultural and economic isolation, Imperial Japan’s expansion led to a confrontation with the nation that had first disturbed its solitude

FROM PEARL HARBOR TO GUADALCANAL

After the disaster in Hawaii, the US employed an island-hopping strategy in the Pacific, carefully choosing where to strike in order to suffocate Japan’s sprawling occupation of the theatre

TURNING THE TIDE Q&A WITH HISTORIAN JOHN WUKOVITS

Though Imperial Japan began on the front foot in 1941, several critical battles sealed victory for the Allies in 1945

DOWNFALL THE INVASION OF JAPAN

Without a swift end to the war in sight, the Allies planned a gruelling campaign on the Japanese home islands –a potentially costly operation avoided only by the use of nuclear weapons and Japan’s surrender

HITLER’S TIGER ACE

Michael Wittmann, aka the Black Baron, was a hugely successful panzer commander and propaganda icon for the Nazis. His role in the Waffen-SS left a dark legacy

MEDIEVAL HELMETS

HOW TO KEEP YOUR HEAD IN A FIGHT

THE DEMISE OF BRAVO TWO ZERO

During the 1991 Gulf War, an SAS operation in the Iraqi desert went terribly wrong

AMERICA’S FIRST COMMANDER IN CHIEF

A Founding Father, military hero of the revolution and the nation’s first president – but how much of his story is fact, and how much fiction?

JAMES ALLEN WARD

In July 1941, 13,000ft above the Dutch coastline in a severely damaged Wellington bomber, this New Zealand airman clambered onto his aircraft’s wing to put out a fire and save his comrades

PLATAEA

2,500 years ago an alliance of a few Greek city-states defeated the invading army of the mighty Persian empire, saving Greece and securing the future of European civilisation

BELL P-39 AIRACOBRA

Hated by the British and Americans, this unorthodox fighter was loved by the Soviet Red Air Force

Imperial War Museum launches new event

Veterans, authors, curators and some of the museum’s famous collection will converge on IWM Duxford for a new summer 2022 history festival

Renovations to the Scapa Flow Museum

The Scapa Flow Museum will reopen in the summer after a significant restoration project to ensure it continues telling Orkney’s unique war history

HMS Invincible exhibition at Chatham Dockyard

The Chatham Historic Dockyard is set to host a fascinating maritime archaeological exhibition about the wreck of HMS Invincible, the British warship that lay undiscovered on the seabed for nearly three centuries

WWII THIS MONTH… FEBRUARY 1942

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

HOSTILE PARTICIPANTS

A BRUTAL, ALL-BUT-FORGOTTEN WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES OVER A CENTURY AGO IS VIVIDLY BROUGHT TO LIFE IN A DEBUT NOVEL THAT’S FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS

U.S. CIVIL WAR BATTLE BY BATTLE

THIS ACCOUNT OF THE CONFLICT’S SIGNIFICANT ENGAGEMENTS IS ACCOMPANIED BY BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK

PERSIANS THE AGE OF THE GREAT KINGS

EXPLORE THE HISTORY OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY ANCIENT EMPIRE

5 BEST BOOKS ON LEIBSTANDARTE SS ADOLF HITLER

Evolving from the Führer’s personal bodyguard into a heavily armed panzer division, the LSSAH included some of the most ardent Nazi zealots and was responsible for many atrocities in WWII

HERO OF VERDUN OR VICHY TRAITOR?

HOW PHILIPPE PÉTAIN DELIVERED FIRST WORLD WAR TRIUMPH, BUT BECAME AN AXIS COLLABORATOR