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The Avro Lancaster bomber is perhaps second only to the Spitfire as Britain’s most famous Second World War aircraft. With a starring role in Operation Chastise and the subsequent Dambusters film (1955), today it has pride of place in the...
Though officially still at war, North and South Korea are locked in a fragile armistice forged after three years of attritional warfare. But what if the US had retreated from the peninsula? Robert discusses the possibilities
Odd is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. On page 20 he discusses how unpredictable alliances and erratic leadership plunged the world into war in 1914, and why he’s concerned history may repeat itself.
Guy is a bestselling author, historian and journalist who has written and edited nine books on the Second World War. On page 48 he discusses his latest book Stealing Hitler’s Rockets, on the daring Operation Most III.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder called the Avro Lancaster the “afterthought that became one of the most successful and effective bombers of the war”. In terms of British aircraft, if anything Tedder undersells the...
Several of our eagle-eyed readers noticed something a little strange about the ‘Panzer’ featured in issue 160’s Q&A on Heinz Guderian. A little closer inspection reveals this was in fact a cleverly disguised postwar Patton! Big thanks to those...
