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Tank of the week: America’s answer to the Tiger, M26 Tank Heavy Pershing

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Mar 5, 2013 Nikola Budanovic

As the Second World War was coming to its end, the technologies on the battlefields of Europe were becoming more and more complex. The tank…

REVIEW: JOHNNY The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton by Mark Barnes

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Mar 1, 2013 Mark Barnes

Up in Scotland there is a tumbledown grave of an old soldier and his good lady where the health and safety people have been round.…

REVIEW: BOEING B-52 STRATOFORTRESS Haynes Workshop Manual by Mark Barnes

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Feb 28, 2013 Mark Barnes

In their last offering Haynes gave us the Vickers Wellington, a classic piece of 1930s technology from the mind of Barnes Wallis the genius we…

The Most Prolific Rifle of WWII: The M1 Carbine

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Feb 28, 2013 Ian Harvey

The most used gun by US forces during World War Two was the M1 Carbine. Made from 1942 to 1945 the M1 Carbine was provided…

Exclusive from excerpt author Alex Kershaw – THE FEW AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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Feb 9, 2013 Guest Author

Their Finest Hour “You catch him right smack in the middle of your sights and give him a complete burst. The Brownings go to work,…

REVIEW: ROMMEL’S ARMY IN THE DESERT By Mark Barnes

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Feb 8, 2013 Mark Barnes

I seem to have been more than a little marooned in the desert of late. It has become affixed in my thoughts thanks to Bryn…

Tankfest 29th – 30th June 2013 Update – Programme Announced!! – Tank Museum

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Feb 8, 2013 The Tank Museum

With less than 150 days to go until TANKFEST 2013, The Tank Museum has announced an outline programme for the weekend’s arena displays. Among the…

REVIEW: The Lords of War by Mark Barnes

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Feb 7, 2013 Mark Barnes

When I was a much younger me, prone to underthinking and new to so much of the history I now take for granted, I  came…

Douglas Haig – butcher or hero? By Rupert Colley

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Feb 5, 2013 Guest Author

Douglas Haig, Britain’s First World War commander-in-chief from December 1915 to the end of the war, is remembered as the archetypal ‘donkey’ leading ‘lions’ to…

6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment and the Locust by Peter Brown

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Feb 3, 2013 Guest Author

Following their use of Tetrarch tanks landed by glider in support of the D Day landings, 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment RAC’s next action was…

REVIEW: EL ALAMEIN The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second of the Second World War by Mark Barnes

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Jan 29, 2013 Mark Barnes

There is a lot of hyperbole about Alamein, but let’s be fair it matters to us because it was a British and Commonwealth victory that…

Bringing the story of Witold Pilecki, Polish hero who volunteered to go INTO Auschwitz, to America

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Jan 27, 2013 Damian Lucjan

Inmate 4859. The Death Camp Volunteer – Beyond Bravery  Thus, I am expected to describe bare facts only, as my colleagues want it. It was…

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