History of War

From the conquering legions of Ancient Rome to the thunderous tank battles of World War II and beyond, History of War takes you deeper inside the minds of history’s fighting men, further under the bonnets of some of the world’s most devastating war machines, and higher above the battlefield to see the broad sweep of conflict as it happened.

Welcome

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THE BATTLE GOES ON • 22 November 1967

PRESENT ARMS • circa 1917

TRANQUILLITY TO TRAGEDY IN BELFAST • 10 August 1969

TIMELINE OF THE SEABEES • Read the history of the US Navy’s Construction Battalions, from Second World War battlefields to Middle East conflict zones

NORMANDY BUILDING THE PATH TO VICTORY • Bringing ashore massive amounts of materiel on D-Day and beyond, Construction Battalions were vital to Allied success in northern France

GOING NUCLEAR • In preparation for the first nuclear tests since Trinity, the Seabees entered the post-WWII era building infrastructure at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific

MIDDLE EAST • During UN peacekeeping missions, the war in Iraq and the ‘Global War on Terror’, Seabees carried out vital military and civilian tasks

AID AND DISASTER RELIEF • In response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises, the Seabees have deployed around the world to rebuild, repair and restore hope

HITLER’S COMMANDOS • While Allied Special Forces were busy testing the boundaries of ‘ungentlemanly warfare’, the Third Reich was also attempting to build its own crop of crack fighters. No task was too dangerous or dirty for these men, who were led by Hitler’s favourite ‘commando’, Otto Skorzeny. But were these ‘elite’ troops, and the man who led them, the stuff of legend or another piece of over-hyped military mythology?

OPERATION FRANZ

THE BRANDENBURGERS

OTTO SKORZENY

THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE • In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, two fleets met with the fate of a nation in the balance

THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE, 1794-EARLY MORNING

THE FIRST SAXON INVASIONS • When the Romans abandoned Britain, its coasts became vulnerable to raids and incursions by the peoples of northern Europe. But who exactly were they and how did they establish their new dominions?

RIDDLE OF THE RECORDS • Accurately dating many of the invasions and early settlements of the Saxons and other peoples is an ongoing puzzle for historians and archaeologists

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SARATOGA ANATOMY OF A DISASTER • Two years into the Revolutionary War, the struggle between the American colonies and Britain reached a critical moment, with General John Burgoyne’s Red Coats seemingly on the verge of turning around the rebellion’s early successes. So what led to Britain losing an entire army, while suffering one of its greatest defeats?

A TALE OF TWO COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF • The performance of the two opposing leaders was quite different during the campaign

PATRIOT PROBLEMS • While both sides ran into challenges, the Americans were better able to overcome them

BENNIE G ADKINS • Outnumbered ten-to-one, this Special Forces sergeant heroically defended his training camp near the Ho Chi Minh trail, overcoming several wounds, betrayal and even a wild tiger

WHAT IF… JAPAN INVADED INDIA? • In early 1944 the war in south-Asia reached a critical moment, as Japanese offensives, including Indian nationalists, threatened British and Allied control of north-eastern India and beyond

THE PAST

THE POSSIBILITY

M1 ABRAMS MAIN BATTLE TANK • Since its debut in the 1980s, the M1 Abrams tank has maintained a combat edge on the modern battlefield

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