Friday, November 4, 2011

Military History

Welcome to HistoryOfWar.org. We aim to make our site your first call for information on any aspect of military history. If we don't have what you want,then contact us via our military history discussion forum or contact us directly

Currently we have 4,065 articles, 1,565 pictures, 370 maps, 429 unit histories, 512 book reviews and over 2,876,700 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.

Check our recent articles page (last update 4 November 2011) 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 4 November 2011.

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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