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In honor of the 70th anniversary, for the past week the British Army’s 16 Air Assault Brigade’s Facebook page has been posting photographs and synopses of the fighting that the British 1st Airborne Division was involved in during Operation Market-Garden...

by Robert Barr Smith Just boys facing danger, please God make them men; If they live through the danger, make them boys once again. —Sergeant Ginger Woodcock, June 5, 1944 On the morning of June 6, 1944, the greatest amphibious fleet in history bore...

Photographic exhibition by Robin Savage at the Mezzanine Gallery, AirSpace, IWM Duxford Produced by Airborne Assault – The Museum of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces with Helion Books Tuesday 29 April to December 2014 As part of our...

How The Battle of the Somme sparked cinema’s obsession with war One hundred years after the battle of the Somme and the groundbreaking film that followed, Laura Clouting explores the challenges of dramatising the fear, courage and complicated reality...

Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury) / The Battle of Crete Dates: 20 MAY-1 JUN 1941 This month I am purely indulging myself. The battle in question was neither decisive nor even particularly crucial, and its impact on the course of the Second World...