Smedley butler

The veteran of the Spanish-American War and future President of the United States waged a battle for the Medal of Honor that went unresolved for a century

THEY WERE TRUSTED, RESPECTED AND ADMIRED – UNTIL THE DAY THEY CROSSED THE LINE AND BROKE THE LAW

BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA 12-15 SEPTEMBER 1814

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

In WWII’s final weeks, this British Indian Army sepoy was severely wounded in Italy while silencing multiple German machine gun nests

E rich R Döbrich was born in Sonnenberg, Thuringia, on 31 May 1896 – he added ‘-Steglitz’ to his name following his service in the First World War. During that conflict, he had served as an Ulan with