ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

I magine you’re in Nebraska, standing on North America’s Great Plains, where the broad Platte and Missouri rivers join on their way to the mighty Mississippi. It’s 1804, and in the blistering 36°C hea

The Germans possessed two monstrous M-Gerät howitzer guns nicknamed ‘Big Bertha’ – but they were barely finished and had undergone no testing when the First World War broke out. Even so, on 2 August 1

Castlethorpe sits mid-way between London and Birmingham in the Buckinghamshire countryside on the West Coast main line just north of Wolverton. It witnessed the very beginnings of the railway age as t

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

Whilst researching your family tree, it is inevitable that you will come across service personnel of some sort, at some time, likely someone who served in the British Army. You have a name, a number a