War in focus

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, German troops faced an unexpected threat. The French Army used hot-air balloons, or Montgolfiers, for the first time for reconnaissance and intelligence purp

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg

As the Soviet Red Army stubbornly resisted German advances on the Eastern Front in the summer of 1942, the total ammunition consumption of the Wehrmacht’s ground forces in-theatre dramatically increas