Countering the tank

This lightweight General Service Mk V device could immobilise Hitler’s heavy tanks and was used during fighting in Northwest Europe

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

SOUTHEASTERN IRAQ 26-27 FEBRUARY 1991

In 1941, General der Panzertruppe Erwin Rommel needed heavy artillery to support his advancing armoured divisions in North Africa. Horse-drawn artillery was impractical in the heat of the desert, the

At the end of 1944, the German armed forces mainly used two types of rifle cartridges (apart from those fired by numerous captured weapons) – 7.92 x 57 mm with an sS (heavy spitzer) bullet for rifles

The first five pages of my new novel, Small Acts of Resistance, a love story set during the First World War, have taken a somewhat circuitous route to print. Their journey into being started over twen