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War art is often associated with male heroics – sketches dashed off under fire, or epic battlefield paintings filled with flags and explosions. Yet the value of women’s war art is that it helps captur

We ended last month looking at the soldier’s pocket books of the 19th century. Sadly very few of these documents survive. They are NOT included in any Army papers that have been stored over the years.

When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

The creation of the Fw 58, Focke-Wulf’s first aircraft to feature a retractable undercarriage, was overseen at the company’s Bremen factory by 33-year-old Kurt Tank, who had been appointed Chief of De

Q I would dearly love to find out what my RAF grandfather did during his time in Egypt 1941-45. He was 1283966 Cpl William James Edwards (Figure 1), Photographic Reconnaissance Unit and later with the