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Currently we have 4,135 articles, 1,572 pictures, 372 maps, 468 unit histories, 546 book reviews and over 2,910,900 words in original articles. We don't just cover the best known conflicts, although we do have good coverage of the First and Second World Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and now the American Civil War.
Map showing the Eighteen Kingdoms, 206-202 BC
Check our recent articles page (last update 26 January 2012) to see what we are doing at the moment. New articles will also be announced on our Blog, our forum and our mailing list (sign up using the form at the base of this page).
Our section of reviews of new book and DVD releases was last updated on 27 January 2012.
We now have a day-by-day history of the Second World War, covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on 16 September 1945 (two weeks after the surrender in Tokyo Bay), and currently containing 5,276 individual facts.
Our 4,000th article looks at the Great Peloponnesian War of 431-404 BC. Our 3,000th article looks at the battle of Truillas (22 September 1793), a Spanish victory early in the War of the First Coalition. Our 2,000th article is a look at the German battlecruiser Von der Tann, part of our recent focus on the First World War. Our 1,000th article, on the Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII came during our War in the Air themed month in 2007.
We have now added our two millionth word, in our biography of the Roman general Manius Aquillius (died 89/88 B.C.), our 1000th battle - the battle of Rivoli of 14 January 1797, and our 500th military aircraft, the Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber (Lily)
In 2006-2007 we ran a series of themed months, on the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War and War in the Air in which we created subject home pages which bring together all of the infomation we have on those subjects. We also have a subject home page on the Second World War.
In 2006 two of our authors walked Hadrian's Wall for the Perthes Disease Association
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 Stalingrad 1942, Peter Antill. One of the most monumental and widely discussed battles in the history of World War II, Stalingrad was a major defeat for Germany on the Eastern Front. The book provides a detailed breakdown of the armies on both sides, discusses the merits of the commanders, the ways in which these influenced the battle and the Germans allowed themselves to be diverted from their main objective and concentrate such large resources on what was, initially anyway, a secondary target. [see more] |
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