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BATTLE OF DETTINGEN

DETTINGEN (MODERN-DAY KARLSTEIN AM MAIN, GERMANY), 27 JUNE 1743

10 min |

Issue 146

All About History UK

SURVIVING A FINANCIAL CRISIS

Jame DiBiasio explores how financiers can learn from the mistakes of the past

4 min |

Issue 146

History of War

TALI-IHANTALAI

Outnumbered and outgunned, the Finns’ spirited defence of a natural choke point turned back the Red Army during the largest battle in the region's history

10+ min |

Issue 136

History of War

RUSSIAN ROULETTE Q&A WITH ANNA REID

As WWI reached its bloody crescendo, a foolhardy intervention was launched into Russia's civil war -a move that descended into sinister complicity and defeat

10+ min |

Issue 136

History of War

ALLIED FIGHTBACK

Britain and France race to Norway’s aid as the two nations suffer their first defeats and score their earliest victories of the war

3 min |

Issue 136

History of War

HOME GUARD

Beginning as veteran volunteers in Britain's 'Darkest Hour', the nation's defence forces grew to take on a range of dangerous and secretive roles

10+ min |

Issue 136

History of War

BRITS BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

At the beginning of the Cold War, a peculiar military mission began its work officially, and unofficially, gathering intelligence inside Soviet-occupied East Germany

10+ min |

Issue 136

History of War

The FIRST BATTLE

At the end of the 7th century, a battle you've probably never heard of took place between two emerging nations, soon to be historic rivals. The fighting settled a border that still endures over 1,300 years later

7 min |

Issue 136

History of War

PLOTTING THE STRIKE NORTH

Ahead of his push west, Hitler launched a pre-emptive assault on neutral Scandinavia to secure iron ore supplies and Nazi control of the North Sea

3 min |

Issue 136

History of War

DEFEAT & OCCUPATION

Nazi victory in the north ushered in five years of occupation characterised by collaboration and brutal retribution

4 min |

Issue 136

History of War

Heroes of the Medal of Honor LUCIAN ADAMS

Armed with a Browning Automatic Rifle and hand grenades, this lone sergeant silenced three enemy machine gun emplacements in the mountains of northeastern France

6 min |

Issue 136

History of War

SCANDINAVIA UNDER ATTACK

Hitler’s forces smash through Denmark and Norway ina grim foretaste of the terrible fate awaiting the rest of Western Europe

3 min |

Issue 136

Best of British

Forties Post – Plastic Fantastic – Andrew Wilson shines the spotlight on a pioneering plastic surgeon

A hero in many people's books and even a war hero to others - John was recognised in his lifetime by his contemporaries, his patients and in letters that made their way into the local newspaper, the Staffordshire Sentinel. Over time that gradually fell away, to the point where, if asked, few people would ever have heard of John Grocott - apart from his former patients, for whom the universal question appears to have been: "How do you say thank you to someone who has made my life worth living?"

6 min |