I come from a family of Royal Marines and, for many years, was a regular visitor to the old Royal Marines Museum at Eastney. So, I approache...

Nowadays, the once-mighty Fort Loncin, one of a chain of fortifications built around the strategically important Belgian city of Liège, rese...

On 8 May 1953, the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) held its first reunion dinner at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, London. ...

In the early hours of 10 May 1940, the end of the Phoney War was heralded by an audacious assault on the Belgian fortress of Eben-Emael. A g...

In 1942, the German Luftwaffe began investigating the possibility of using a rocket brake in aerial sea mining. The aim was to reduce the ve...