pen and sword

Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels

12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy

The history of the armored division comprised of German teenagers in the Normandy campaign, drawi...

Pioneer Battalions in the Great War

Pioneer battalions, created as an expedient in 1914, were a new concept in the British Army. Inte...

Royal Air Force in the Cold War 1950-1970

Soon after the Second world War, wartime allies became Cold War adversaries, and by 1950 the perc...

Impossible Victories

Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds - victory snatched from the jaw...

Painting Wargaming Figures

Javier Gomez, a highly talented figure painter of long experience and excellent reputation, share...

Mil’ Mi-6/-26

Developed in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and first flown in June 1957, the ...

Allied Tanks of the Second World War

Expert author Michael Green has compiled a full inventory of the tanks developed and deployed by ...

English Electric Lightning

Developed to intercept increasingly capable Soviet bombers such as the Tupolev Tu-16, Tu-22 and T...

Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors

Straddling parts of Counties Antrim and Down, the city of Belfast has seen its fair share of hist...

Afghan War

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing do...

Pioneer Battalions in the Great War

Pioneer battalions, created as an expedient in 1914, were a new concept in the British Army. Inte...