The grisly fate of more than 16,000 soldiers and civilians during the First Anglo-Afghan War serves as a timeless lesson in hubris and bad leadership

By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path

A Coldstream Guards private earned this honour at Inkerman before becoming Florence Nightingale’s personal bodyguard

KARELIAN ISTHMUS 25 JUNE – 9 JULY 1944

The US invasion of Grenada generated widespread criticism, caused a rift between traditional allies and faced an embarrassing internal review

The MMO’s next update takes the battle to the skies