BMMHS Articles

The British Expeditionary Force

From the Phoney War to Blitzkrieg, 1939 – 1940

by James Goulty

Sleeping With The Enemy

British Wartime Collaborators and Traitors

by Nick Brazil

On the Wings of Angels

The Story of Airlifts

by Nick Brazil

History reloaded as AI puts ethics in the firing line

by Linda Parker

The Fight for Greenland… Begins Again

by Linda Parker

Behind Enemy Lines

The story of Special Forces

by Nick Brazil

Finland’s Winter Wars

The Conflict with Russia in The Second World War

by Nick Brazil

Air America

The Strange Story of a Phantom Airline

by Nick Brazil

Twixt War and Peace

The Dilemma of Neutral Countries in World War Two

by Nick Brazil

‘Better a horse in the German army than a soldier in the Romanian army’

Romanian Military Experience during the Second World War

by James Goulty

Losing the Rock – Hitler’s Plan to Capture Gibraltar

by Nick Brazil

The 66th Berkshires and St. Helena

by Veronica Baker-Smith

War Booty’ Tanks and the German Military c. 1939-1945

by James Goulty

The LST: ‘the queen of the amphibious warfare ships’

by James Goulty

Battle of Britain Imprecision

Claiming exactitude is rarely sensible when considering the Battle of Britain.

by Geoff Simpson

A New Year Coup – The Jameson raid

by Nick Brazil

T. E. Lawrence & Captain Shakespear

Two Heroes of the Arab Revolt 1917

by Nick Brazil

Napoleon’s Spies

by Nick Brazil

Cochrane’s Castle

Lord Thomas Cochrane and the siege of Rosas

by Philip K Allan

The Enigma of Napoleon

by Nick Brazil

The ‘Dirty War’: First Indo China War, 1946-54

by James Goulty

Armies That Vanished

by Nick Brazil

Behind Enemy Lines

My Last Pathfinder Operation

Victor Hanks

The Thousand Mile War

The Aleutian Campaign

by Nick Brazil

A Long War in Africa

The Angolan Civil War

by Nick Brazil

The Seeds of War

by Nick Brazil

The Kingsclere Shootout

by Nick Brazil

Biafra, The Bush War That Killed Millions

by Nick Brazil

Escape from a Deadly Shore

by Nick Brazil

One of our aircraft is stolen

by Nick Brazil

4 Days in Normandy D-Day 80th

by Andy Cockeram

The Italian Soldier during the Second World War

by James Goulty

Private Ron Read – A casualty of Friendly Fire D-Day 6th June 1944

by Trevor Hancock

The Russian Soldier during the Second World War

by James Goulty

How the British helped start the Spanish Civil War

by Nick Brazil

The Waffen-SS and the Second World War

by James Goulty

The Greatest Escape of World War Two

The Ozbalt Raid 31st August 1944

by Nick Brazil

Soldiers of France or Desperate Mercenaries: The French Foreign Legion and the Second World War 

by James Goulty

The Rum Rebellion Australia’s only Coup d’Etat

by Nick Brazil

British Society for the History of Medicine

‘First Do No Harm’ Medics and Chaplains in the 20th and 21st Centuries

by Linda Parker

Home Guard

Part-Time Warriors: The Home Guard, 1940-1944

by James Goulty

The Walcheren Debacle 1809

by Nick Brazil

Edward Ashmore and the defence of Britain

by Geoff Simpson

Battle Experience from the ‘Forgotten War’; Korea 1950-53 Part II

by James Goulty

Lancashire Fusilier

The ‘Hand of Fate’ in the Great War

by Patricia Rothwell

A COPP Officer in Malta

A brief history of COPP and their operations from Malta.

by Kurt Degabriele

An Admirable Gun

The 25-Pounder Field Gun

by James Goulty

Sino-Vietnamese War

A Costly Victory

The Sino-Vietnamese War 1979

by Nick Brazil

Shortest War

The Shortest War in History

The Anglo-Zanzibar War 1896

by Nick Brazil

James Goulty Korea

Battle Experience from the 'Forgotten War'; Korea 1950-53

James Goulty

Battle Experience from the 'Forgotten War'; Korea 1950-53

James Goulty
AH64D Longbow Apache

Body counts: Has Prince Harry illuminated a necessary evil?

Dr Emma J Breeze

Body counts: Has Prince Harry illuminated a necessary evil?

Dr Emma J Breeze

Neither War nor Peace Irish Neutrality 1939-1946

by Nick Brazil

Neither War nor Peace Irish Neutrality 1939-1946

by Nick Brazil

The Annexation of Goa

by Nick Brazil

The Annexation of Goa

by Nick Brazil

A heroic performance at the Palladium

by Steve Richards

A heroic performance at the Palladium

by Steve Richards

The Bear vs The Dragon

by Nick Brazil

The Bear vs The Dragon

by Nick Brazil

The Dhofar War

by Nick Brazil

The Dhofar War

by Nick Brazil

The Jebel Akhdar War

by Nick Brazil

The Jebel Akhdar War

by Nick Brazil

To shoot but not to kill

by Nick Brazil

To shoot but not to kill

by Nick Brazil

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