June 13, 1944. A British armored column is crossing the quiet French town of Villers-Bocage, unaware of the storm about to ...

The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...

Why Trooper Alec McKillop fired five shots at five German Panthers on June 14, 1944 — and destroyed them all[...] ...

One hundred years ago Thursday, when tanks went into battle for the first time, warfare changed forever. These giant armored killing machines have been a central feature of combat ever since. The ...

In 1938 and 1939, it became increasingly apparent to both the British military and to the world that a major European war was imminent. As a stop-gap measure, the Covenanter tank was built in large ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

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A Challenger 2 tank of the Royal Welsh Battle Group on Exercise Prairie Storm at the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Canada. As part of a sweeping reorganization, the British Army plans to cut ...

The scholar has published ‘Brothers in Arms,’ tracking the campaign of a British armored regiment throughout World War II ...

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