From the epic sieges of Medieval Europe to the daring dogfights of World War II, History of War takes you inside the minds of fighting men, under the bonnets of some of the world's most devastating war machines, and high above the battlefield to see the broad sweep of conflict as it happened.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in History of War Issue 116.
Welcome
SCAN TO GET OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER The M4 Sherman was the most prolific tank deployed by the Western Allies, and served across all the major theatres of WWII, including the Eastern Front. However, a...
SHOULDER ARMS 1918
© Getty
Charlie Chaplin sits with other soldiers in a dugout scene from his 1918 silent comedy Shoulder Arms. Set sometime during WWI, the film depicts Chaplin as Doughboy, a military va...
PATROLLING CARENTAN
15 June 1944
© Alamy
American paratroopers patrol the French town of Carentan in a captured German vehicle while other US soldiers rest against a building. This photograph was taken th...
TOPPLING SADDAM
2 April 2003
© Alamy
Royal Engineers pose next to a statue of Saddam Hussein they have toppled and decapitated in the Iraqi city of Az Zubayr, Basra Governorate. Photographed dur...
MACHINE GUN CORPS
A British Expeditionary Force machine gun team pictured in northern France, c.1914-15
4 August 1914
OUTBREAK OF FIRST WORLD WAR At the start of the war, the British Army has no d...
‘WE HAVE THE MAXIM’
The quest to create a rapid-firing gun had been underway since medieval times but it was not until the 19th century that machine guns came into being. In 1861, American inventor Richard Gatling pate...