Ed Nash has spent years traveling around the world. Between June 2015 and July 2016 he volunteered with the Kurdish YPG in its battle against ISIS in Syria; his book on his experiences, Desert Sniper, was published by Little, Brown in September 2018.
Military history is, by its nature, replete with anniversaries. We have just seen the Fourth of July pass, which is obviously most famous for the Surrender of Vicksburg in 1863 during the American Civil War. And of course, that day is also remembered for another epic...
The disparity in the sorts of bombers used by the opposing forces in the Second World War is a subject that is quite often discussed in military history circles. Whilst the Americans and the British deployed vast numbers of heavy bombers, the German Luftwaffe was...
The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in 2020 and the now heavy losses suffered by Russian and Ukrainian armoured units in their current conflict have led to some rather excited commentary in segments of the press about the “death of the tank”. From a historical...
